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CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE Tuesday August 7, 2018 Los Angeles and San Francisco CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE Tuesday August 7, 2018 at 6pm Los Angeles and San Francisco BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 220 San Bruno Avenue +1 (323) 850 7500 Los Angeles Front cover: Lot 109 San Francisco, California 94103 +1 (323) 850 6090 fax Scot Levitt Inside front cover: Lot 34 [email protected] Director, Fine Arts Opposite: Lot 49 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Vice President Inside back cover: Lot 110 Los Angeles, California 90046 To bid via the internet please visit +1 (323) 436 5425 Back cover: Lot 42 bonhams.com www.bonhams.com/24771 [email protected] PROPERTY COLLECTION PREVIEW Please note that bids should be Kathy Wong NOTICE San Francisco submitted no later than 24hrs Specialist, Fine Arts This sale previews in multiple Friday July 27, 12pm to 5pm prior to the sale. New and +1 (323) 436 5415 cities. Please note the property Saturday July 28, 12pm to 5pm returning bidders will need valid [email protected] will be available for collection Sunday July 29, 12pm to 5pm proof of identity on file. Failure at our Los Angeles gallery at to do so may result in your bid San Francisco the time of the auction. Local, Los Angeles not being processed.. Aaron Bastian out-of-state and international Friday August 3, 12pm to 5pm Specialist, Fine Arts buyer property will remain Saturday August 4, 12pm to 5pm LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS +1 (415) 503 3241 available for collection in our Sunday August 5, 12pm to 5pm AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE [email protected] Los Angeles gallery after the Please email bids.us@bonhams. auction. All Northern California SALE NUMBER: 24771 com with “Live bidding” in buyer property will be shipped Lots 1 - 143 the subject line 48hrs before to our San Francisco gallery for the auction to register for this collection. 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Bonhams 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco, California 94103 © 2018, Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.; All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 1 WILLIAM SAMUEL PARROTT (1843-1915) Exhibited Shoshone Falls (Snake River, Idaho) East Oakland, The Home Club, Loan Collection of Pictures, no. 23, signed ‘W.S. Parrott’ (lower right), titled on a later label (affixed to the n.d. [1904-1919]. frame) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Frontier: oil on canvas Images and Myths, June 26 - September 16, 1973. 42 x 60 1/2in overall: 60 x 77in Literature Painted circa 1880 “The American Frontier: Images and Myths,” The Connoisseur, vol. 184, 1973, p. 132, fig. 3, illustrated. $8,000 - 12,000 Patricia Hills, The American Frontier: Images and Myths, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973, no. 50, p. 61. Provenance Ellen Halteman Schwartz, Northern California Art Exhibition Catalogues Private collection. (1878-1915): A Descriptive Checklist & Index, La Jolla, 1990, p. 15, Gift to the present owner from the above, 1919. 92. Sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 4 | BONHAMS 2 WILLIAM KEITH (1838-1911) The Rev. Worcester cottage was as architecturally significant then A view of Reverend Joseph Worcester’s House, Piedmont, California as it is today. Rev. Worcester’s interest in architecture was a natural unsigned extension of his spiritual views on the harmony of God in nature. He oil on canvas is credited with developing a California version of the Shingle Style 16 3/8 x 27 14in architecture, known today as the First Bay Tradition, which counted overall: 26 1/2 x 37 1/4in architects Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, and John Galen Howard as Painted circa 1883 its best-known adherents. $15,000 - 20,000 In keeping with the philosophy of the Shingle Style, the emphasis was on harmony with nature through the use of humble materials and guild Provenance craftsmanship. Evident in the present work is the natural redwood Private collection, California. façade, which was both abundant, inexpensive, and helped to blend the architectural mass into the landscape. The present work depicts an idyllic pastoral view of the Piedmont Hills with a sweeping panorama of the San Francisco Bay and Marin The work relates to two known oil paintings of the same subject, both County beyond. Notably pictured in the midground is a cottage which of a similar size and dated 1883, in private collections. the Reverend Joseph Worcester designed for himself in 1876. 1 Scott A. Shields, Artists at Continent’s End: The Monterey Peninsula Rev. Worcester was a Swedenborgian minister whose spiritual beliefs Art Colony, 1875 - 1907, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006, were compatible with the Transcendentalist philosophy of his day. Keith p. 44. was sympathetic to his beliefs, and became a close friend in the late 1870s. According to Scott A. Shields, Keith visited Rev. Worcester at his Piedmont home as well as his church in San Francisco and included the home in more than one landscape painting of the Piedmont hills.1 CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE | 5 3 4 3 4 THEODORE WORES (1859-1939) GRACE CARPENTER HUDSON (1865-1937) Fruit seller, Samoa Untitled (Head, Little Upper Lake Girl) signed ‘Theodore Wores.’ with a signature and date pentimento ‘April signed ‘G. Hudson’ (lower left), signed again and inscribed ‘Grace 1902’ (upper right), titled (on the reverse) Hudson/Ukiah Cal/102.’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas board oil on academy board 16 x 10in 5 3/8 x 3 11/16in overall: 19 1/2 x 13 3/4in overall: 9 x 7in Painted in 1902 Painted in 1897 $10,000 - 15,000 $3,000 - 5,000 Provenance Literature Private collection, Hawaii, prior to June 2009. Searles R. Boynton, The Painter Lady Grace Carpenter Hudson, Private collection, California. Eureka, 1978, p. 161, no. 102, black and white thumbnail illustration. 6 | BONHAMS 5 AMÉDÉE JOULLIN (1862-1917) Literature The Passing of the Wampum Belt “Among the Artists,” San Francisco Call, Vol. 82, No. 76, August 15, signed and dated ‘Amédée Joullin 97.’ (lower right) 1897, p. 11 (as ‘The Exchange of the Wampum Belt’). oil on canvas Arthur I. Street, “California Artists - III: The Work of Amédée Joullin, 36 1/2 X 57 1/4in Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, No. 193, January 1899, p. 4, 9, black overall: 51 1/4 x 72 3/8in and white line illustration. Painted in 1897 “Artist A. Joullin is Highly Honored,” San Francisco Call, Vol. 87, No. 185, May 24, 1900, p. 9 (as ‘The Passing of the Wampum Belt’). $40,000 - 60,000 “Honors for Amédée Joullin,” The Argonaut, Vol. XLVI, No. 1211, May 28, 1900, p. 14 (as ‘Passing of the Wampum Belt’). Provenance The Luzern Hotel, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1959. Private collection, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Sun City, Arizona owner of the above Private collection, Taos, New Mexico, by family decent, 2008. CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE | 7 6 7 6 7 PERCY GRAY (1869-1952) WILLIAM BRUCE (1861-1911) A Marin view Mountain Cabin signed ‘Percy Gray’ (lower left) signed and dated ‘W. Bruce. 1910’ (lower left) gouache, watercolor, and graphite on paper oil on canvas sheet 10 x 13 15/16in 18 x 30 1/4in overall: 17 x 21in overall: 27 1/2 x 39 1/2in Painted in 1910 $5,000 - 7,000 $3,000 - 5,000 Provenance Property of a private collector. 8 | BONHAMS 8 THOMAS HILL (1829-1908) The Grizzly Giant and The Wawona (a pair) each signed ‘T. Hill’ within the composition (lower right), titled within the composition (lower center) oil on unprimed redwood panel each 45 x 10 1/8in overall: 48 1/2 x 13 1/2in $15,000 - 20,000 Provenance Private collection, California. CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE | 9 9 FRANCIS JOHN MCCOMAS (1875-1938) Exhibited Monterey Twilight Carmel, The Carmel Art Association presents an exhibition of works by signed and dated ‘Francis McComas 1902’ (lower left) the Botkes, the McComases, the Seidenecks, August 4 - September watercolor on wove paper 6, 1988, no. 83. 26 1/8 x 34 3/4in Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum; Laguna Beach, Laguna Art overall: 31 3/4 x 40 3/8in Museum; Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and Monterey, Painted in 1902 Monterey Museum of Art, Artists at Continent’s End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907 [traveling exhibition], February $10,000 - 15,000 17 - May 21, 2006, June 18 - October 1, 2006, October 21, 2006 - January 21, 2007, and February 3 - April 29, 2007, respectively. A copy of the documentary on DVD, Don’t Pave Main Street: Carmel’s Heritage, hosted and narrated by Clint Eastwood, accompanies the Literature lot. Eugen Neuhaus, The History and Ideals of American Art, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1931.