Description:
Justus Pfeiffen (American, 20th Century)
Summer Landscape with Hayfield and Rolling Hills
Signed and dated "Justus Pfeiffen 43" l.l.
Oil on canvas, 26 x 30 in. (66.0 x 76.0 cm),in a period frame.
Condition: Small vertical tear to c.r., tack hole l.l., minor canvas deformation, varnish discoloration, surface grime.
N.B. Although little biographical information is available for Justus Pfeiffen, he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1910 and 1913, and records show his residence was in Manhattan. Both works exhibited at PAFA were landscapes, one called Ohio Mountain: Kattskill.
Estimate $1,500-2,000
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