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AMERICAN ART Tuesday November 22, 2016 New York AMERICAN ART Tuesday November 22, 2016 at 2pm New York BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 Kayla Carlsen Front Cover: Lot 9 New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Director of American Art Inside Front Cover: Lot 47 bonhams.com +1 (917) 206 1699 Session Page: Lot 31 To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] Inside Back Cover: Lot 79 PREVIEW www.bonhams.com/23480 Back Cover: Lot 81 Friday Nov 18, 12pm to 5pm Elizabeth Goodridge Saturday Nov 19, 12pm to 5pm Please note that telephone bids Junior Specialist, Cataloguer Sunday Nov 20, 12pm to 5pm must be submitted no later than +1 (917) 206 1621 Monday Nov 21, 10am to 5pm 4pm on the day prior to the [email protected] Tuesday Nov 22, 10am to 1pm auction. New bidders must also provide proof of identity and Elizabeth Meyer SALE NUMBER: 23480 address when submitting bids. Administrator Lots 1 - 98 Telephone bidding is only available +1 (917) 206 1619 for lots with a low estimate in [email protected] CATALOG: $35 excess of $1000. Pamela Bingham Please contact client services with Director, Business Development, any bidding inquiries. Fine Art +1 (917) 206 1698 Please see pages 116-119 for [email protected] bidder information including Conditions of Sale, after-sale collection and shipment. All items listed on page 119, will be transferred to offsite storage along with all other items purchased, if not removed by 4pm on Friday December 2. © 2015, Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.; All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 Principal Auctioneer: Malcom J. Barber, License No. 1183017 AMERICAN ART Lots 1- 98 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION 1 2▲ CHARLES BURCHFIELD (1893-1967) CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935) Exhibited Night Scene at Dock Trees and Houses (Provincetown) Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, Demuth bears inscription ‘Night Scene at Dock / #57 / 85’ (on the reverse) signed and dated ‘C Demuth • 1916 -’ (lower left) Exhibition, 1939. watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down on board watercolor and pencil on paper Boston, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, on 14 1/4 x 18 7/8in 10 x 13 1/2in loan 1972-circa1995. New York, Babcock Galleries, When Modern Was Modern: 1908- $15,000 - 25,000 $40,000 - 60,000 1929, September-December, 2007, no. 26. New York, Babcock Galleries, GIANTS: American Modern Masters, Provenance Provenance October 14-December 17, 2010, no. 5. Private collection, New York. The artist. By descent to the present owner, 1999. Estate of the above. Literature Robert Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bequest from the above, E. Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, Ph.D. Accompanying this lot is a detailed research report completed by The 1935. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, vol. II, pp. 494-95, no. 220. Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, dated October 2016. Nelson Goodman, Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, acquired from the G. Greer and A. Smith, American Paintings 1860-1960, New York, above, 1956. 2000, pp. 36-37, illustrated. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, March 15, 2000, lot 153. Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, acquired from the above. Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006. 6 | BONHAMS AMERICAN ART | 7 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION 3 4▲ CHARLES BURCHFIELD (1893-1967) On March 9, 1917, Charles Burchfield recorded the following CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965) Exhibited Fish Houses observation in his journal: Tulip New York, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, Suspended Forms: American bears inscription ‘MAR - 9 - 1917 / # 534 / 552’ and ‘#166222717’ mixed media on paper Modernism 1908-1928, January 31-February 16, 2013. (on the reverse) “A morning with the peculiar blk haze coming down from the Zenith 20 x 15in watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board – Horizon strangely white – sky & roofs same tone leaving houses in Executed in 1922. Literature 18 x 21in fragments. Anything with a tower is a huge overpowering blk thing “Paintings and Drawings by Charles Sheeler,” American Art News, with a livid white edge— & buildings in front of it are in fear. $70,000 - 100,000 April 1, 1922, p. 6. $20,000 - 30,000 T. Craven, “Charles Sheeler,” Shadowland, March 1923, vol. VII, no. 1, Noon – hazy layer sky -, melted snow on mud-snow forms vivid Provenance pp. 11, 71. Provenance bizarre patterns on ruts & turf – A feeling as if all at once things are (possibly) The Daniel Gallery, New York. F. Watson, “Charles Sheeler,” The Arts Magazine, May 1923, vol. 3, Private collection, New York. going to change and a new world introduced, yet it never does — (possibly) Susan W. Street, acquired from the above. no. 5, p. 334, illustrated. By descent to the present owner, 1999. A rare sunset, as on a hot August evening, the melted snow & mud Lawrence Art Museum, Williams College, Williamstown, L.N. Dochterman, Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles freezes slightly; the sky is wet’ a dense brown haze fills the air making Massachusetts, bequest from the above, 1957. Sheeler, Ph.D. dissertation, State University of Iowa, 1963, n.p. objects strangely elusive —” Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1972. Meredith Long Galleries, Houston, Texas, 1972. Accompanying this lot is a detailed research report completed by The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1973. Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, dated October 2016. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, December 3, 2003, lot 55. Private collection, acquired from the above. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2013. 8 | BONHAMS AMERICAN ART | 9 PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION 5 6▲ PRESTON DICKINSON (1891-1930) Exhibited PRESTON DICKINSON (1891-1930) Exhibited Church Spires Albany, New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, and elsewhere, Still Life with Condiments (The Provolone Cheese) New York, Babcock Galleries, Davis, Dove, Hartley, Marin, Sheeler, oil on canvasboard A Family Collection: Drawings, Sculptures and Oils by American pastel on paper laid down on paper May 1-July 11, 2007, no. 4. 10 5/8 x 8 5/8in Artists Selected from the Collection of Lucille and Walter Fillin and their 18 3/4 x 24 3/4in New York, Birnam Wood Galleries, Modern Life: American Paintings Children, July 9, 1962-April 7, 1963, n.p., no. 8, illustrated. Executed circa 1925. Between The Wars, July 5-August 5, 2007. $10,000 - 15,000 New York, Babcock Galleries, When Modern Was Modern: 1908- $10,000 - 15,000 1929, September 17-December 21, 2007, no. 29. Provenance New York, Babcock Galleries, American Paper: 1865-1965, March The Daniel Gallery, New York. Provenance 5-May 6, 2009, no. 57. Mr. and Mrs. Walter and Lucille Fillin, New York, probably acquired The artist. New York, Babcock Galleries, GIANTS: American Modernist Masters, from the above, by 1962. Private collection. October 14-December 17, 2010, no. 65. By descent to the present owner. The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1964. Owen Gallery, New York. Sale, Christie’s, New York, March 2, 2006, lot 136. Acquired by the present owner from the above. 10 | BONHAMS AMERICAN ART | 11 8 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 7 8 KONRAD CRAMER (1888-1963) CHARLES BURCHFIELD (1893-1967) Bouquet in White Vase Tree Stumps signed and dated ‘Konra Cramer 1928.’ (lower right) bears inscription ‘FEB - 25 - 1917 / # 428 / 568’ and ‘#166222717’ oil on gessoed panel (on the reverse) 20 x 16in watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board 14 1/4 x 22 1/2in $8,000 - 12,000 $20,000 - 30,000 Provenance Valentine Dudensing Galleries, New York. Provenance Martin Diamond Fine Arts, Inc., New York. Private collection, New York. Sale, William Doyle Galleries, New York, May 4, 1994, lot 68. By descent to the present owner, 1999. Private collection, New York. Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Accompanying this lot is a detailed research report completed by The Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005. Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, dated September 7 2016. 12 | BONHAMS AMERICAN ART | 13 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF SYLVIA MCLAUGHLIN, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 9 PAUL HOWARD MANSHIP (1885-1966) Diana inscribed ‘Paul Manship / © 1921’ and ‘Valsuani Foundeur’ (on the base) bronze with greenish-brown patina and select areas of silver plate 38 1/4in high on a 1 1/2in marble base $400,000 - 600,000 Provenance Mr. George E. Cranmer, Denver, Colorado. By descent to the present owner from the above. Literature E. Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, pp. 14, 18, 161-62, no. 138. Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1985, p. 72-75, no. 45, another example illustrated. J. Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, pp. 100-101, 111, 113, 133, pl. 92, another example illustrated. H. Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 73-83. 14 | BONHAMS AMERICAN ART | 15 After being rewarded the Rome Prize in 1909, the young artist Paul Bonhams proudly offers this sculpture on behalf of the distinguished Manship moved to Rome where he pursued additional study at the collection of Sylvia McLaughlin, an influential environmentalist from American Academy. He returned to New York in 1912 to find a captive San Francisco, California. Mrs. McLaughlin was the founder of the audience, favorable to his developing style, and commissions soon Save the Bay Association, responsible in large part for stopping the followed. His education abroad left the artist with an acute awareness filling and pollution of the San Francisco Bay. Named in her honor of the classical subjects which formed the canon of art history that is The McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, in Berkeley, California.