Building America: The Wolf Family Collection

Building America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Eunice Pinney

The Courtship

No reserve

Auction Closed

April 21, 08:50 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Eunice Pinney

1770-1849

The Courtship


watercolor on paper

circa 1790

12 x 9¼ in. (30.5 x 23.5 cm.)

Col. Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Pokety Farms, Cambridge, Maryland
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Fine Americana, April 27, 1978, sale 4116, lot 455
Wolf Family Collection No. 0258 (acquired from the above)
Mirra Bank, Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It, New York, 1979
Susan Foster, "Couple & Casualty: The Art of Eunice Pinney Unveiled," Folk Art, Summer 1996, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 36
New York, Museum of American Folk Art, Collector's Choice, September 9-November 9, 1969
Plymouth, Massachusetts, Pilgrim Hall and Plymouth Antiquarian House, Remember the Ladies: Women in America 1750-1815, June 30-September 26, 1976
New York, Museum of American Folk Art, Young America: Through the Eyes of the Folk Artist, September-December 1986, illustrated