Walter Launt Palmer (American, 1854-1932) The Pine Grove

Description:

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.
Estimate $8,000-12,000

Under glass, very minor toning, sight size 29 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (74.9 x 55.2 cm); staining on the reverse is to a backing board, not to the work itself; inscribed "Under the Pines" to the reverse of millboard; no additional condition issues to report.

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