S otheby’s American Art sale on 17 September at 10:00 AM EDT will present a wonderful group of paintings, sculptures and works on paper. The auction includes a number of notable works from a preeminent and widely exhibited collection of nineteenth century Hudson River School Paintings (All that is Glorious Around Us: Property from an Important American Collection). We are also proud to present Milton Avery’s Gaspé Bay from California Straight Ahead: Property from the Collection of Dr. David Sanders and Prof. Jesse Dukeminier and Jamie Wyeth’s Piece of the Wreck, a striking watercolor executed in 1977 on Maine’s Monhegan island.
