August Americana
Description:
American School, Early 19th Century
Watercolor Portraits of Nancy Hays and James Hays
Unsigned.
Watercolor on paper, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in., in brown-painted frames with raised corner blocks.
Condition: Toned, scattered spots.
Provenance: Chris Machmer; Howard Feldman; Sotheby's, July 23, 1988, Lot 154; Greg K. Kramer, Philadelphia Antiques Show, April 14, 1996.
Note: Typed label on the reverse reads: "These pictures of Great-grandmother and Great-grandfather Hayes were done by an old Indian who came through the village of Terra Alta, W. Va. some time after 1845, which was the year James Hayes settled in W. Va."
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $4,000-6,000
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Keywords
James Hays, Nancy Hays, Howard Feldman, Greg K. Kramer, Chris Machmer, Sybil KernStephen L. Fletcher
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