Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2444Location: BostonDate / Time: February 15, 2009 11:00AM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Apple Gathering in a New England Pasture. Unsigned, inscription on barrel and wheelbarrow reads: "Carlton Mill Harvard St," followed by indistinct inscriptions. Oil on canvas, 25 x 32 in., in a giltwood frame. Condition: Relined, minor scattered retouch, primarily to background sky.
Exhibitions: This painting reportedly depicts a Harvard, Massachusetts, apple orchard. It was exhibited in The Landscape of Change: Views of Rural New England, curated by Jay Cantor, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in 1976.
Estimate $1,500-2,500