$40,000
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 6, 2020 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'Daniel Garber' bottom right; also titled and signed on the upper stretcher verso, oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (71.4 x 76.5cm).
Executed in March 1934.
In a Bernard Badura frame.
Provenance
The Artist.
Acquired directly from the above in June 1952.
Collection of Harold D. Saylor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By descent in the family.
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
Exhibited
"Pennsylvania Landscape Artist's Exhibition: Garber, Redfield, Yates," Buck Hill Art Association, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, August 16-September 17, 1934, no. 1.
"Philadelphia on Parade," Philadelphia Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 9-18, 1935.
"Exhibition of Faculty Work: Breckenridge, Pearson, Garber, Harding, Nuse and Speight," Summer School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, August-September 1, 1936.
"Paintings by Daniel Garber," Mount Holyoke Friends of Art, Dwight Art Memorial South Hadley, Massachusetts, September 21-October 21, 1936, no. 19.
"Daniel Garber: Drawings and Paintings," Tricker Galleries, New York, New York, January 17-February 10, 1938, no. 20.
"Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members, Recipients of Academy and Institute Honors, and Pictures Purchased from the Childe Hassam Fund," American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, May 22-June 30, 1948, no. 18.
Literature
Artist's Record Book, I, p. 50, lines 25-29.
"Letter of Clifford R. Gillam from Buck Hill, to Daniel Garber," in Artist's Clipping File, June 13, 1934.
Howard Devree, "A Reviewer's Notebook: Brief Comment on Some Newly Opened Exhibitions in the Local Galleries," in New York Times, January 23, 1938 (Artist's Clipping File).
Lance Humphries, Daniel Garber: Catalogue Raisonné, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2006, Vol. II, cat. P 647, p. 233 (illustrated).
Note
The present work will be accompanied by an original letter from Daniel Garber to Harold D. Saylor commenting the work, dated August 18, 1952.
The present work was painted in 1934 on Route 263, about one-eighth of a mile from Centre Bridge on the Pennsylvania side. It depicts the house of Mr. Sigafoos in the foreground, framed by plenty of honeysuckle and light grass. It is the third painting after Geddes Run (1930) and Glen Road (1932) to depict the same road descending to Centre Bridge. All three works show a different side of the same yellow house. As the artist states in a letter to Harold D. Saylor dated August 18, 1952: “I have always called [Yellow House] my weather painting, as I started it shortly after a shower when the honeysuckle was a rich brown and the sycamore trunks were much darker and richer than usual. Then, I’ve always felt pleased at the vanishing shower over Stockton, N.J., where you see the Stockton steeple (…) The Yellow House is still standing in its original spot, but is now covered with white shingles.”