August Americana
Description:
Manner of Erastus Salisbury Field (Massachusetts, 1805-1900)
Fantastic Allegorical Landscape. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, the exotic landscape with mountains and a variety of trees in a river valley, an angel aboard a small vessel looks to the light and the gates to heaven accompanied by a figure dressed in red, 37 x 46 in., in a grain-painted frame. Condition: Patch repairs.
Provenance: The Collection of Enid and Alexander Fisher, Roxbury, Connecticut.
Estimate $800-1,200
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Keywords
Alexander Fisher, RoxburyStephen L. Fletcher
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