The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
William J. McCloskey
Still Life with Wrapped Lemons
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May 24, 05:22 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
William J. McCloskey
1859 - 1941
Still Life with Wrapped Lemons
signed W.J. McCloskey (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 by 17 in.
25.4 by 43.2 cm.
Executed circa 1895.
Dora L. Foster, New York
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s New York, 24 May 2001, lot 135 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting, New York, 1971, no. 21, p. 166, illustrated (as Lemons)
(possibly) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, 1889, no. 15 (as Florida Lemons)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, American Cornucopia: 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies, 1976, no. 57, pp. 11, 33-34, illustrated
Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center; New York, National Academy of Design, Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life 1801-1939, 1981-82, no. 88, pp. 206-207, no. 8.27, illustrated (as Still Life, Lemons)