Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Birney Mcnabb Quick
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Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Birney McNabb Quick (American, MN 1912-1981) Untitled (Landscape with windmill, house, stream) oil on board, 31 ½ x 24 ½” $1100.00 Birney Quick was born in 1912, in Proctor, MN. The family moved to Duluth and he graduated from Denfeld High School in 1931. Quick spent the early 1930s in the East, attending the Vesper George School of Art in Boston (1931-1934) and studying at several Massachusetts and New York art colonies, particularly the Barn Studio in Andover, Massachusetts, and in Woodstock, New York. In 1936 and 1937 he was awarded the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation fellowship and spent the summers studying at the Tiffany estate on Long Island. In 1937 he returned to Duluth, shared a studio with fellow artist Kunte Heldner, opened a gallery, and was employed as sculpture and art instructor at the College of St. Scholastica (1938-1940). Quick joined the Army Air Corps in 1943, spending part of his tour painting murals at the Keesler Base, Biloxi, MS. In 1946 he joined the faculty of the Minneapolis School of Art, now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the college in 1951, was promoted to associate professor in 1964 and to professor in 1973, and also taught in the school's evening program. In 1973 he received an honorary Master of Fine Arts degree from MCAD and at his December, 1977, retirement was named the school's first professor emeritus. In 1947 Quick and Byron Bradley of the Kilbride-Bradley Gallery, Minneapolis, began the Grand Marais Outdoor School of Painting as part of the Minneapolis School of Art's summer program. During 1949-1951 the classes were held in Red Wing and Minneapolis, but the program was moved back to Grand Marais in 1952 and was rechristened the Town Hall Art Colony. In 1956 the art school terminated its sponsorship of the colony, and Quick and Bradley became its sole owners. They renamed it the Grand Marais Art Colony. During his career Quick’s work was shown in numerous one-man and group exhibitions in such galleries as Duluth's Art Institute and the Tweed Museum of Art; Minneapolis's Harriet Hanley Gallery, Walker Art Center, Kilbride-Bradley Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Martin Gallery, and MCAD; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Quick had works in American Federation of Art and United States Information Service traveling exhibits, and produced watercolor illustrations for Ford Times magazine (1950s-1970). His highly acclaimed murals can be seen in buildings in Coleraine, Grand Marais, Duluth, and St. Paul, all in Minnesota. In 1975 he was named an Outstanding Educator of America. Estate of Value www.estateofvalue.com | (218) 390-8094 1 Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Robert Luedtke (Duluth, MN / Bisbee, AZ) Untitled (backs of row houses) watercolor on paper, 8 x 10” $100.00 “I paint in both oils and watercolors - much of my work is landscape. The human figure and still life are also subject matter I enjoy painting. Most of my work is done on location. I would consider myself a plein air painter. Art has always been an important part of my life. I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. Over the years I have worked in the areas of sculpture, ceramics and jewelry. Now, painting has become my main endeavor. Before I retired, I taught Art in the Duluth Minnesota School System. I live and work in Duluth, Minnesota during the summer and in Bisbee, Arizona during the winter. The contrast of Northern Minnesota and Southern Arizona offers great challenges for painting the landscape. “ - -Robert Luedtke Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) Swithland Hall, Earl of Leicestershire engraving on paper, 5 x 7” $30.00 Estate of Value www.estateofvalue.com | (218) 390-8094 2 Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Drawn by T. Allom, engraved by W. Le Petit. 1832 Ugbrooke, county Devonshire (Also known as Wogbrooke – “wog” meaning bending or winding – brooke - river) engraving on paper, 5 x 7” $30.00 Carl Johnson (American, Galena, IL) Historical buildings of Galena, IL offset printed reproduction from original art, 12 x 17” $30.00 Estate of Value www.estateofvalue.com | (218) 390-8094 3 Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Don Peterson (American, Lutsen, MN) Untitled, ca. 2000, carved limestone, 11 x 6 x 5” $100.00 The subject of a one-person exhibition at the Duluth Art Institute, Peterson carves versions of microscopic botanical forms, such as pollen grains or parts of plants enlarging them many hundreds of times. Maude Goodman (British, 1860-1938) Songs of Love, 1889 chromolithograph on paper, 13 x 17” $80.00 Goodman was born in Manchester but moved to London where she became a pupil of Edward Poynter. She married Arthur Scanes in 1882 but continued to use her maiden name. She exhibited 54 works during the years 1874-1901 at the Royal Academy. She also showed works at the Chicago World Exposition in 1893. Her painting Hush was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[4] She was mentioned by Dorothy L. Sayers in The Wimsey Papers VI as an overly cloying painter of idealised children in Arcadian settings; In the case of this print titled “Songs of Love,” the subject appears to be more cynical than cloying, if you look at the attitudes of the audience. Estate of Value www.estateofvalue.com | (218) 390-8094 4 Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Two fashion plates from Godey's Lady's Book etchings with color, 10 x 8” $30.00 for both Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was a United States women's magazine that was published in Philadelphia from 1830–1878. The most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860. In the 1860s Godey intended to take advantage of the popularity of gift books, many of which were marketed specifically to women. Each issue contained poetry, articles, and engravings created by prominent writers and other artists of the time. Sarah Josepha Hale (author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb") was its editor from 1837 until 1877 and only published original, American manuscripts. Although the magazine was read and contained work by both men and women, Hale published three special issues that only included work done by women. Artist unknown (American, 19/20th c) Untitled (yellow bird on branch) oil on board, 21 x 9” $90.00 Estate of Value www.estateofvalue.com | (218) 390-8094 5 Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Artist unknown (American, 19/20th c.) Untitled ((figures on ledge overlooking lake) oil on canvas, 24 x 13” $65.00 Artist unknown (American, 19/20th c.) Untitled (road w/ trees, house at left) oil on canvas, 20 x 27 ½” $50.00 Estate of Value www.estateofvalue.com | (218) 390-8094 6 Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Leonard Ochtman (American, b. Holland, 1854-1932) Untitled (river scene with lily pads) engraving after an original painting by Leonard Ochtman, 13 ½ x 27 ½” signed in pencil and in plate $300.00 Leonard Ochtman became a noted Tonalist and Impressionist landscape painter of sunsets, twilight and dawn scenes that conveyed silence and serenity. work bridged the Tonalist and Impressionist styles. He was born in Zonnemaire, Netherlands, the son of a decorative painter. His family moved to Albany, NY in 1866. In 1882 he began to exhibit landscapes at the National Academy of Design, and he became a National Academician in 1904. His most characteristic pictures, which recall the work of George Inness, are scenes on Long Island and on the Mianus River in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT. Ochtman was a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Connecticut. His wife, Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862-1924), and daughter, Dorothy Ochtman (1892-1971), were both American Impressionist painters and notable members of the Cos Cob Art Colony. John Charles Pitcher (American, b. 1949) Untitled (Birds and pine branches) printed reproduction after an original work, 23 x 19” $35.00 Estate of Value www.estateofvalue.com | (218) 390-8094 7 Dale Lucas & Julene Boe Moving Sale Art Catalog | 1503 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN | July 29-30, 2017 Artist unknown (Europe/Continental, 20th c.) Untitled (parlor scene) tapestry, machine woven, with extensive fabric framing, 20 X 38” $200.00 Gari (Julius Garibaldi) Melchers (American, 1860-1932) The Fencing Master printed reproduction after an original work from 1900, 31 X 16” $60.00 Melchers mastered several styles – naturalism, impressionism, symbolism. The Fencer is a study in naturalism, or realism. Painted around 1900, the original is in the Institute of Arts in Detroit – the artist’s hometown. The son of German-born sculptor Julius Theodore Melchers, Gari studied art at the in Düsseldorf under von Gebhardt. After three years went to Paris, where he worked at the Académie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1884, he founded an art colony at Egmond aan Zee, Holland ,with American artist George Hitchcock.