George Copeland Ault

A New York Skyline

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

George Copeland Ault

1891 - 1948

A New York Skyline

signed G.C. Ault and dated '21. (lower left)

oil on canvas

18 by 24 in.

45.7 by 61 cm.

Executed in 1921.

Mr. and Mrs. Sol Brody, New York
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Saint Louis, Missouri, The Saint Louis Art Museum; Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art (and traveling), Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography, 1982, p. 180

Gerrit Henry, “George Ault,” Art News 82, no. 2, 1983, p. 146

Henry Adams, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1985, p. 158

Exh. Cat, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection, 2009, p. 30

New York, Waldorf-Astoria, Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, 1921, no. 19
New York, Anderson Galleries, Our Choice of Independents, 1921
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, George Ault: Nocturnes, 1973-74, no. 10
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum (and traveling), George Ault, 1988, no. 4, pp. 9-11 and 52, illustrated