Lot 12
  • 12

George Henry Durrie 1820 - 1863

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • George Henry Durrie
  • Winter-time on the Farm
  • signed DURRIE (lower left)
  • oil on board
  • 8 1/4 by 13 inches
  • (21 by 33 cm)
  • Painted circa 1862-63.

Provenance

Gregor's Beaux Art Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
Colin Simkin Collection, Hartford, Connecticut, by 1966
Private Collection, Orange, Connecticut
Sale: Selkirk Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri, lot 66, n.d.
Lapham and Dibble Gallery, Shoreham, Vermont
Private Collection, St. Louis, Missouri, 1984 (acquired from the above)
By descent in the family to the present owners

Exhibited

New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven Colony Historical Society, George Henry Durrie, Connecticut Artist 1820-1863, April-June 1966, no. 25, illustrated pp. 26-27

Literature

Traveler's Insurance Company, Calendar, 1960
Martha Young Hutson, George Henry Durrie (1820-1863), American Winter Landscapist: Renowned Through Currier and Ives, Laguna Beach, California, 1977, fig. 109, p. 222, illustrated p. 106

Condition

Very good condition. Some stable cracking in the upper right quadrant. Under UV: a few tiny pin dots of inpainting in the house at left and sky, and a thin 1/2 inch line in the rock at lower right.
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