$56,700
Estimate: $50,000 - $80,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 3, 2023 at 2 PM ET
Signed ‘Fern I. Coppedge.’ bottom right; also inscribed ‘Dolores’ verso and inscribed ‘1934/Wedding/gift’ on stretcher verso, oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 20 1/8 in. (46.4 x 51.1cm)
Housed in a Reuben Moore Price frame.
The Artist.
A (wedding) gift from the above.
Collection of Margaret Effa Kuns, the Artist's sister, Kansas.
By descent in the Artist's family.
Private Collection, Colorado.
Les and Sue Fox, Fern Coppedge 1883-1951: One Woman's Struggle for Equality in the Art World, West Highland Publishing, Cincinnati, 2021, p. 197, no. CWF-81 (illustrated as Winter Village Landscape, New Hope).
Fern Coppedge settled in Bucks County in 1920 and, for the next 30 years, trained her eye on the region’s picturesque hamlets and idyllic landscapes—many of them nestled under a blanket of downy snow. Winter Village, New Hope features hallmarks of the artist’s appealing, if idiosyncratic, style from the early 1930s: the bold palette becomes less naturalistic as the eye follows the icy-blue Delaware Canal winding gently between the pink, orange, and turquoise houses. A figure, so often absent from Coppedge’s work, instills the warmth of humanity, and of community, in an otherwise frigid landscape.