$30,810
Walter Launt Palmer (American, 1854-1932) The Pine Grove , c. 1917 Signed "-W.L. PALMER-" l.r., identified on a presentation plaque, inscribed "Under the Pines" and stamped "AAA 1917" on the reverse. Mixed media (oil, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on millboard), 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.8 cm), framed. Condition: Not examined out of frame. Provenance: From the artist to Otto Bernet, New York City; through the collection of Collier Whittemore Baird (1888-1977), New Jersey and New York; present owner by family descent. Literature: Florence N. Levy, American Art Annual , Vol. XIV (Washington, D.C.: The American Federation of Arts, 1917), p. 382; Illustrated Catalogue of American Paintings and Sculpture Contributed by Prominent Artists , American Art Association, May 3 to 4, 1917, no. 154; Maybelle Mann and Alvin Lloyd Mann, Walter Launt Palmer: Poetic Reality (Exton: Schiffer Publishing Co., 1984), p. 173, no. 1155. Exhibitions: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Paintings by Walter Launt Palmer , Nov 29 to Dec 14, 1913, no. 11; American Art Association Auction [168 American paintings and sculpture contributed by artists for the Relief Fund of the American Artists' Relief Committee of One Hundred co-operating with the Fraternité des Artistes Paris, and for New York Allied War Relief], May 3 to 4, 1917, Lot no. 154. N.B. We wish to thank the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives for their kind assistance cataloguing the lot. Under glass, very minor toning, sight siz
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-02-03
