On April 27, Shannon’s will present their Spring 2023 Fine Art Auction, featuring roughly 200 lots that include numerous examples of blue chip American Art.
The American Impressionist category includes an exceptional 50 by 60-inch Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958) entitled High Bridge Over Harlem River, created circa 1913. This large canvas is elegantly framed in an impressive, custom Lowy frame. The package is ready-to-hang and an undeniable show-stopper in the auction gallery. This fresh-to-the-market painting is being offered from a private Connecticut collection of American paintings.
Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958), High Bridge Over Harlem River, ca. 1913. Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 in., signed lower right. Estimate: $50/75,000
From the same collection, is a bucolic landscape by J. Alden Weir called Summer in Connecticut - The Old Barn at Branchville. Weir lived in Branchville and is famous for his impressionistic renderings of rural Connecticut. He was also a founding member of the famed American Impressionist group “The Ten.” The painting has a high estimate of $18,000, while Sunshine in the Hills, another large work painted by Richard Hayley Lever during his time in England, painted during the artist’s time in England, is expected to achieve somewhere in the vicinity of $70,000.
John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972), Mule Barn, 1928-1929. Oil on canvas, 24½ x 30 in., signed lower right. Estimate: $30/50,000
Other leading lots, include Bend in the River by Hudson River School artist Jasper Francis Cropsey, which will be offered at $30,000 to 50,000. The painting, exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1892, depicts sheep grazing in a river bank. The luminist sky and fall foliage are typical of Cropsey’s best works. From the same collection, a charming Thomas Doughty Promenade on the Hudson from 1839 will be on the block for $25,000 to 35,000. The painting depicts a couple walking along a path with the Hudson river and highlands visible in the distance.
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908), Rocky Coast at Grand Manan. Oil on canvas, 18 x 38 in., signed lower left. Estimate: $25/35,000
Among the other notable American paintings in the auction are View at Grand Manan, a large seascape by Alfred T. Bricher; Grouse Shooting, a sporting scene in grisaille by A.B. Frost; and a work by James Fairman entitled Storm King on the Hudson.
John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972), Mule Barn, 1928-1929. Oil on canvas, 24½ x 30 in., signed lower right. Estimate: $30/50,000
20th-century American paintings by Michael Goldberg, four works on paper by Lynne Mapp Drexler from the 1960s and a work by Russell Chatham will also be featured in the sale.
Shannon’s is accepting consignments for this auction through March 15.
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