$1,638
Estimate: $2,500 - $4,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 6, 2021 3:00:00 PM EDT
Inscribed 'Property of Dr. D.K. Leiby/New Hope, PA' on stretcher bar verso, oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5cm)
Provenance
The Artist.
Commissionned directly from the above.
Collection of Dr. D. K. Leiby, New Hope, Pennsylvania.
A gift from the above.
By descent in the Leiby family.
Freeman's, Philadelphia, sale of December 8, 2002, lot 145.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Collection of Dan Whitaker, Lambertville, New Jersey.
Note
The sitter for this portrait was Dr. Roy Lynde, a country doctor in Ellendale, North Dakota who strongly inspired Dr. D. K. Leiby to pursue a medical career. Dr. Leiby subsequently became a well-known figure in Bucks County, where he treated many of the New Hope artists and also collected their works. This portrait was commissioned directly by Dr. Leiby from Daniel Garber in honor of Dr. Lynde's seventy-sixth birthday on August 31, 1950.