SCULPTURAL FANTASY
The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin
The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin
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EXCEPTIONAL ‘FRIENDSHIP<br />
ENGINE HOUSE’ POLYCHROME<br />
PAINT-DECORATED SHEET AND<br />
WROUGHT IRON FIREMAN<br />
WEATHERVANE, ALEXANDRIA,<br />
VIRGINIA, CIRCA 1850<br />
Height 52 ½ in. by Width 35 in.<br />
PROVENANCE<br />
Friendship Engine House, Alexandria, Virginia;<br />
Harden de V. Pratt, Rhode Island and Virginia,<br />
1930;<br />
George Considine, Massachusetts;<br />
Sotheby’s, New York, Important American Folk<br />
Art from The Collection of the late Bernard M.<br />
Barenholtz, January 27, 1990, sale 5969,<br />
lot 1507;<br />
America Hurrah, New York;<br />
Private Collection, New York;<br />
Olde Hope Antiques Inc., New Hope,<br />
Pennsylvania.<br />
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LITERATURE<br />
Jean Lipman, American Folk Art in Wood, Metal<br />
and Stone (New York: Pantheon Press, 1948),<br />
fig. 49;<br />
Robert Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New<br />
York: E.P. Dutton, 1974), p. 266, fig. 495;<br />
Maine Antique Digest: The Americana<br />
Chronicles, 30 Years of Stories, Sales,<br />
Personalities, and Scandals, ed. Lita Solis-<br />
Cohen, (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2004),<br />
p. 211-5.<br />
$ 60,000-80,000<br />
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