About This Auction

The spring installment of American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists offers a cross-section of American art history, bridging the gap between 19th-century still life and landscape painting, masterworks by Childe Hassam and Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and the crisp narratives of mid-century modernism. The sale is anchored by an appealing selection of canvases by New Hope Impressionists Edward Redfield, Rae Sloan Bredin, Mary Elizabeth Price, and Kenneth Nunamaker, and also by Walter Emerson Baum's Late Afternoon (1933), arguably his most compelling interpretation of the region. A strong selection of Golden Age illustration—by the likes of Howard Pyle, Ethel Franklin Betts, and Sarah Stilwell Weber—highlights Freeman's historical strengths in the Brandywine School while standout examples by Everett Shinn, William Glackens, Edward Henry Potthast, and Martha Walter offer a counterpoint to offerings by Peter Blume, Milton Avery, Jamie Wyeth, and Lynne Drexler.