Fine American & European Paintings & Sculpture 12/02/12
Fine American & European Paintings & Sculpture 12/02/12
Fine American & European Paintings & Sculpture 12/02/12
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60<br />
free≤an’s<br />
fine american & european paintings & sculpture<br />
<strong>12</strong>/<strong>02</strong>/<strong>12</strong><br />
98 <strong>12</strong>6017/18<br />
GEORGE GARDNER SYMONS<br />
(american 1863-1930)<br />
“THE FURTHER HILLS SEEN THROUGH A VEIL OF EVENING<br />
LIGHT”<br />
Signed ‘Gardner Symons’ bottom left, oil on canvas<br />
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2cm)<br />
provenance:<br />
Edwin C. Shaw, Akron, Ohio.<br />
The Estates of James A. & Dorothy C. Vaughn, Sea Island,<br />
Georgia.<br />
Freeman’s sale of <strong>Fine</strong> <strong>American</strong> & <strong>European</strong> <strong>Paintings</strong> &<br />
<strong>Sculpture</strong>, December 7, 2008 lots 1<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.<br />
note:<br />
A photocopy of a letter from the artist will accompany this lot. It<br />
reads:<br />
“119 East 19th St<br />
New York<br />
My Dear Ms. Dunbar-<br />
I was spending a week with my friend and fellow partner Ben Foster at<br />
his home in West Cornwall, Conn.<br />
He had been urging me for some time to see his place in winter and<br />
said “I want to take you to a spot about ten minutes walk from the<br />
house where you can get a view of the further hills” and so “The<br />
further Hills Seen Through a veil of evening light” was painted.<br />
It is one of my best things and I believe the people who now own it<br />
will grow very fond of the painting for the motive has a real appeal-<br />
With kindest regards,<br />
Sincerely yours<br />
Gardner Symons<br />
Oct 26th 1917”<br />
$20,000-30,000
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