Lot 88
  • 88

William Wendt

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
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Description

  • William Wendt
  • The Silence of Night
  • signed WILLIAM WENDT and dated 1910. (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 40 1/4 by 55 1/4 inches
  • (102.3 by 140.4 cm)

Provenance

Acquired as a gift from A.J. Ochsner, Mrs. Margaret Cook, J.N. Eisendrath, W.H. Allport, Mrs. T.A. Shaw, Miss Bertha Rudolph, and Mrs. Pauline Dohn Rudolph, 1911

Exhibited

Art Institute of Chicago, 23rd  Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, 1910, no. 239
Corcoran Gallery, Third Annual, 1910, no. 160
Carnegie Museum, 1911
Art Institute of Chicago, First Exhibition of Work by the Alumni of A.I.C., 1918, no. 817

Literature

Art and Progress, December 1910, p. 46, illustrated
South Coast News, November 25, 1927
Ruth Westphal, Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland, California, 1982, p. 174, illustrated 
John Alan Walker, Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt (1865 - 1946), California, 1992, no. 619, p. 185

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In good condition, overall; scattered crackle with slight cupping in sky UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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