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Colleagues,

 

I am in search of an auction sales catalog dated December, 1939, from the Coleman Auction Galleries.  At the suggestion of a colleague, I searched the NYT (PROQUEST) and found mention of this sale in an article dated December 10, 1939.  From that article, I’ve deduced that the sale may have taken place the following Saturday, Dec. 16, 1939.  The  NYT item reads:

 

“On Saturday afternoon the Coleman Auction Galleries, Inc., will offer a collection of paintings among which are a number of American portraits and scenes.  The catalogue lists a portrait of Gen. Philip Van Cortlandt by Charles Wilson Peale, a portrait of Timothy Pickering by Rembrandt Peale, a portrait of Gen. Robert Swartout by Samuel F. B. Morse, a scene on Lake Champlain by A. H. Wyant, scenes at Mt. Vernon by Eastman Johnson, a New York scene by Ernest Lawson, American genre subjects and paintings by European artists.”

 

It is not listed in SCIPIO, FirstSearch,  or the union catalogs for MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, and The Frick.

 

If you have it or have suggestions for locating it, please email me off-list.

 

Thanks, all!

 

Joan

 

 

 

Joan Stahl

Librarian

Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

P.O. Box 110

Mount Vernon, VA 22121

Phone: 703-799-8637

Fax: 703-799-8698

Email: [log in to unmask]

 

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