Laura Waring Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Laura Waring Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 26, 2024
AMERICAN LAURA WHEELER WARING WATERCOLOR PAINTING
Est: $100 - $150
A vintage watercolor painting on paper by Laura Wheeler Waring. The fine painting depicts a colorful still life with bright red apples and random objects on a checkered tablecloth in the kitchen. The artists signature is lower on the right. Matted and framed. Laura Wheeler Waring, 1887 to 1948, was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still life, and well known African American portraits she made during the Harlem Renaissance. Collectible American Fine Art, Home Decor.
Antique Arena Inc
Oct. 03, 2024
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit and Flowers.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit and Flowers. Oil on linen canvas, circa 1930s. 546x711 mm; 21½x28 inches. Signed in pencil, upper right recto. Inscribed with the artist's studio address "756 N. 43rd St., Philadelphia, PA" in ink, verso. Provenance: private collection, Philadelphia. This modernist still life is a scarce example of Laura Wheeler Waring's painting from the early 1930s. It displays Waring's painterly exploration within the bounds of traditional genre painting, and the influence of post-Impressionism on her development. One of her larger and best known works from the period is the exuberant floral painting Still Life, 1928, which was once in the Evan-Tibbs Collection of Washington, DC. Waring began painting watercolors in her early teens and won several awards before graduating from the Hartford Public High School in 1906 and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in 1914. Her distinguished career included two periods of study in Paris. The first sojourn was interrupted by the beginning of World War I, and she eventually returned to Paris in June 1924. This second period is widely regarded as a turning point in her style as well as her career. Waring painted portraits until October when she enrolled for a year of painting study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. There she studied with Boutet de Monvel and met Henry Ossawa Tanner and Gwendolyn Bennett - enjoying her "only period of uninterrupted life as an artist with an environment and associates that were a constant stimulus and inspiration." Her savings, she writes, "would not allow [her] to continue this life indefinitely." In addition to the Harmon Foundation in New York, Waring exhibited at the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia and Howard University through the 1940s. Today, her paintings are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and Howard University. Sharpley-Whiting pp. 86-87.
Swann Auction Galleries
Aug. 18, 2024
Laura Waring, Landscape, Oil on Canvas
Est: $300 - $500
Laura Waring, landscape, oil on canvas, 9" x 12", framed 13" x 16". Provenance: Temecula, California collection.
Kaminski Auctions
Jul. 13, 2024
AMERICAN STILL LIFE OIL PAINTING BY LAURA WH WARING
Est: $100 - $150
Laura Wheeler Waring, American, 1887 to 1948, oil painting on canvas depicting a still life with blossoming flowers and plants. Signed lower right. Framed. Laura Wheeler Waring. Framed. Laura Wheeler Waring was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still life, and well known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards, and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
May. 30, 2024
Laura Wheeler Waring (American/Pennsylvania)
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
Laura Wheeler Waring (American/Pennsylvania, 1887-1948), "St. Jean", oil on canvas, signed lower left, titled on stretcher, inscribed en verso, 30 in. x 36 in., framed, overall 35 in. x 41 in. x 2 1/8 in. Note: Laura Wheeler Waring was born in 1887 in Hartford, Connecticut to a pastor father and a teacher and amateur artist mother. After demonstrating artistic promise in school, she attended the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. When she graduated in 1914, she received the A. William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship which led her to studying in Paris. This trip and subsequent visits to Paris greatly influenced her work. After returning to the United States, Wheeler Waring became a teacher at Cheyney Training School for Teachers, an all-Black school in Philadelphia where she established and chaired the art and music departments. In 1928 the Harmon Foundation put together a showcase of prominent artists of the Harlem Renaissance which featured Laura Wheeler Warings work. Following this exhibition, the Harmon Foundation requested her to complete several more portraits to include in their 1944 traveling exhibition which featured portraits of contemporary African Americans and their accomplishments. The success of the exhibition led to Laura Wheeler Waring becoming well known for her portraiture. Wheeler Waring died in her Philadelphia home in 1948, and several of her portraits are on display at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Ref.: Laura Wheeler Waring. Connecticut Womens Hall of Fame. www.cwhf.org Accessed May 2, 2024.
Neal Auction Company
May. 18, 2024
Laura Wheeler Waring, Landscape with River
Est: $1,500 - $3,000
Laura Wheeler Waring (American, 1887-1948), landscape with river, oil on board, signed L/R, 18" x 26", framed 21" x 29". Provenance: Westbury, New York collection.
Kaminski Auctions
Apr. 06, 2024
WATERCOLOR PAINTING SIGNED LAURA WHEELER WARING
Est: $100 - $150
A watercolor painting on paper depicting a still life with a female bust, apples, and a tea pot signed lower left: Laura Wheeler Waring. Framed. Laura Wheeler Waring, 1887 to 1948, was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still life, and well known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards, and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
Feb. 03, 2024
AMERICAN PAINTING BY LAURA WHEELER WARING 1920S
Est: $100 - $150
A vintage oil painting on board by Laura Wheeler Waring. Circa 1920s. The painting depicts a landscape with a river. On the left side of the picture is a small low rise city with red roofs. The artists signature is lower on the left. Framed. Laura Wheeler Waring, 1887 to 1948, was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still life, and well known African American portraits she made during the Harlem Renaissance. Collectible American Fine Art, Home Decor.
Antique Arena Inc
Nov. 11, 2023
LAURA WHEELING WARING AMERICAN 1887-1948
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Landscape with River, oil on board, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 in (62.2 x 47 cm), framed 21 x 29 in (53.3 x 74 cm), signed lower right, PROVENANCE: Private collection Long Island, NY
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Mar. 25, 2023
LAURA WHEELER WARING AMERICAN 1878-1948
Est: $4,000 - $8,000
Still Life of Flowers in a Vase, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in (91.4 x 61 cm), framed: 43 x 31 in (109 x 78.7 cm), signed lower right
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Oct. 18, 2022
Laura Wheeler (Waring) Still Life Painting
Est: $500 - $1,000
Laura Wheeler (Waring) Still Life Painting, African, American artist, 1887 to 1948, signed lower right, oil on artist board, yellow vase with flowers, paper artist label on verso for Riverside Art association, wood frame 15 1/2" x 19 1/2". CONDITION: Paper artist label on verso for Riverside Art Association.
Barry S. Slosberg Inc
Oct. 06, 2022
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit and Flowers.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit and Flowers. Oil on linen canvas, circa 1930s. 546x711 mm; 21 1/2x28 inches. Signed in pencil, upper right recto. Inscribed with the artist's studio address "756 N. 43rd St., Philadelphia, PA" in ink, verso. Provenance: private collection, Philadelphia. This modernist still life is a scarce example of Laura Wheeler Waring's painting from the early 1930s. It displays Waring's painterly exploration within the bounds of traditional genre painting, and the influence of post-Impressionism on her development. One of her larger and best known works from the period is the exuberant floral painting Still Life, 1928, which was once in the Evan-Tibbs Collection of Washington, DC. Waring began painting watercolors in her early teens and won several awards before graduating from the Hartford Public High School in 1906 and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in 1914. Her distinguished career included two periods of study in Paris. The first sojourn was interrupted by the beginning of World War I, and she eventually returned to Paris in June 1924. This second period is widely regarded as a turning point in her style as well as her career. Waring painted portraits until October when she enrolled for a year of painting study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. There she studied with Boutet de Monvel and met Henry Ossawa Tanner and Gwendolyn Bennett - enjoying her "only period of uninterrupted life as an artist with an environment and associates that were a constant stimulus and inspiration. My savings, however, would not allow me to continue this life indefinitely." In addition to the Harmon Foundation in New York, Waring exhibited at the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia and Howard University through the 1940s. Her paintings today are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and Howard University. Sharpley-Whiting pp. 86-87.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 06, 2022
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France. Oil on board, circa 1925. 165x215 mm; 6 1/2x8 1/2 inches. Signed, titled, and inscribed with the artist's studio address "756 N. 43rd St., Philadelphia, PA" in ink, frame back. Provenance: private collection, Philadelphia. Exhibited: Black Matri-Images, Morgan State College Gallery of Art (now known as the James E. Lewis Museum of Art), Baltimore, MD, December 3, 1972 - January 15, 1973, with gallery label on the frame back. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France is an impressionistic painting by Laura Wheeler Waring completed while she was traveling through southwestern France. Completed the same year as The Houses of Semur, 1925, this work is of a hilly and very scenic commune in the Pyrénées foothills. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port was a popular stop for pilgrims en route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jul. 27, 2021
Laura Wheeler Waring (1887 - 1948) American
Est: $700 - $1,500
Laura Wheeler Waring (1887 - 1948) American ,Watercolor / Paper ,Signed Initials ,measures 11" x 9" inches
Cutler Bay Auctions
Nov. 14, 2020
Laura Wheeler Waring, 1887-1948, Still Life, Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 31.5 inches
Est: $70,000 - $90,000
Laura Wheeler Waring 1887-1948 Still Life Oil on canvas 1928 Signed and dated. Original frame. Literature: African American Artists 1880-1987: Selections From the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Institution, 1989; p. 47. Laura Wheeler Waring was born in Hartford, Connecticut to the Reverend Robert F. Wheeler and Mary (Freeman) Wheeler. Waring (nÃ©e Wheeler) began painting watercolors in her early teens and won several awards before graduating from the Hartford Public High School in 1906 and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in 1914. In 1924, she traveled to Paris with novelist Jesse Redmon Fauset and furthered her studies at Lâ€™Academie de la Grande Chaumiere under Botel de Monvel, Robert Henri, and Delacluse. At this time, she began to gain recognition among an emerging group of African American artists. Henry Ossawa Tanner introduced her to artists Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, and Hale Woodruff as well as Langston Hughes and Roland Hayes. In 1927, she married Walter E. Waring, a professor at Lincoln University, an all-black college located in Jefferson City, MO. Waring was an accomplished landscape and still life painter, but her best known work is in portraiture. In 1927, she won the Harmon Foundation gold prize for her portrait Anne Washington Derry. She executed portraits of several prominent African Americans, including Marian Anderson and W.E.B. Du Bois - all of which are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Waringâ€™s work in figure painting was singled out once again by the Harmon Foundation in 1944, when eight of her portraits were shown in the exhibit, Portraits of Outstanding American Citizens of Negro Origin. In addition to fine art, Waring also produced illustrations for the childrenâ€™s books published by Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, Inc., The Brownies Book, and for the cover of The Crisis. She also taught at Cheyney State Teachers College, PA, where she became director of the art department until 1945. Her work may be found in the collections of Howard University, Washington D.C.; EvanTibbs Gallery, Washington D.C.; Barnett-Aden Collection, Florida; and Cheyney State University, PA. 41.5 x 31.5 inches
Black Art Auction
Jun. 04, 2020
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Arrangement of Fruit.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Arrangement of Fruit. Watercolor on thin wove paper, circa 1940. 184x 256 mm; 7 1/4x10 inches. Initialed in watercolor, lower left. Provenance: estate of the artist; Milton Morris James, Yeadon, PA; Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA; private collection, California.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 08, 2019
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) James Weldon Johnson.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) James Weldon Johnson. Oil on linen canvas, circa 1943. 914x762 mm; 36x30 inches. Signed in oil, upper right recto. Signed, titled and inscribed "Writer Poet Teacher 1871 - 1938, Painted by" in oil, upper right verso. Provenance: private collection, Philadelphia. This striking portrait of James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938), one of the leading cultural figures and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance, is an important painting by Laura Wheeler Waring. Another, very similar version of this portait is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 1943 - a gift from the Harmon Foundation in New York where Waring exhibited. There are only slight differences between the two portraits, primarily in the scale of the background, his chair and the foreground treatment. In 1944, the Harmon Foundation commissioned Laura Wheeler Waring and Betsy Graves Reyneau, a white artist, to create a series of portraits of accomplished contemporary African Americans. Their portaits were organized as a traveling exhibition Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin expressly to fight racial prejudice and elevate the representation of African Americans by portraying outstanding figures in the arts and sciences. In addition to Johnson, Waring's other subjects included Marian Anderson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Harry Thacker Burleigh and Jessie Redmon Fauset. Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution on May 2, 1944 and toured the country for ten years. This painting is a memorial portrait of James Weldon Johnson, a leading lyricist, poet, novelist, diplomat, and leader in the NAACP. Johnson is best known for his writing the hymn Lift Every Voice and Sing, in collaboration with his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, a song which became so popular it is referred to as "The Negro National Anthem." In the 1920s, Johnson wrote two key volumes that helped define poetry in Harlem Renaissance, The Book of American Negro Poetry and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. The background of this painting references the imagery found in "Creation," Johnson's best-known poem from God's Trombones. In addition to the Harmon Foundation in New York, Waring exhibited at the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia and at Howard University through the 1940s. In addition to the National Portrait Gallery, Waring's paintings are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Howard University, Washington, DC and the Petrucci Family Foundation.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 08, 2019
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Untitled (National Art Gallery).
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Untitled (National Art Gallery). Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, circa 1940. 235x279 mm; 9 1/4x11 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left. Provenance: estate of the artist; Milton Morris James, Yeadon, PA; Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA (with the label on the back board); private collection, California. This charming watercolor depicts a visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC with the artist and her sister, Mary Alice McNeill.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 19, 2018
L. Wheeler Waring, o/c, Portrait of J Weldon Johns
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
Laura Wheeler Waring (1877-1948), signed recto upper right and verso; n.d., oil on canvas, Portrait of James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). [Inscription verso in gray paint, apparently in the artist's hand: "James Weldon Johnson / (1871-1938) / Writer - Poet - Teacher / Painted By / Laura Wheeler Waring”] [Provenance: Estate of Mildred Lee Powery, Philadelphia] [Apparently original toned gold and carved frame] 36" h x 30" w = image; 41 1/2”h x 34 1/2” w = frame. CONDITION: Single pinpoint of paint loss within mountains; several scattered small areas of light craquelure; no other evident issues. Wheeler Waring and her friend Betsy Reyneau were commissioned by the Harmon Foundation in the late 1930s to paint a group of portraits of note worthy African American leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In a groundbreaking moment for the presentation of African American art in a major national venue, these works were exhibited at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington in 1944, and then toured the United States in several significant settings. This body of work now resides in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The portrait of James Weldon Johnson offered in this sale is a closely related version of the work at the Smithsonian, with mostly minor compositional differences, but clearly the same painterly execution. Johnson’s image and position within the picture plane are virtually identical in both works, but despite similar truncation of the mountain peaks, the perspective of the background landscape and the figures which it contains is broader and more distant in the Smithsonian version. That version lacks the ledge which serves to separate the sitter from the background in this work. The other significant compositional difference is the rendering of a narrow red curtain at the left edge of this painting, behind the sitter, which does not appear in the Smithsonian version. Interestingly, the powerful 1932 photographic portrait of Johnson by Carl Van Vechten incorporates a rather wider curtain behind his left shoulder. It is possible that Waring may have adapted this element as an homage to the Van Vechten portrait. There are other differences in detail, as for example the rendering of reflected light upon the sitter’s suit jacket and upon the mountains, and the somewhat plainer chair back in this example. The dimensions of the two canvases are identical; the Smithsonian work carries a date of 1943 though the version here is not dated. While it would not have been unusual for the artist to have created more than one finished version for a commission of this magnitude, it is not clear whether either Waring or Reyneau did so other than for the Johnson portrait.James Weldon Johnson was an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and as a lawyer, civic leader, political activist, composer, and literary light, an extraordinary Renaissance Man. A key operative of the NAACP from 1917, he became the organization’s first black executive secretary in 1920 and held that position for a decade during the period of NAACP’s first major expansion and series of legal challenges to African American disenfranchisement. Johnson then returned to his early focus as an educator, and served as a university professor for the rest of his life. He became the first black person to join the faculty of New York University. Throughout his career, Johnson was a prolific author, poet, and trailblazing creator of anthologies within an African American context. His legacy rests largely in that sphere.
Barry S. Slosberg Inc
Dec. 15, 2015
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Waterfront, Semur, France.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Waterfront, Semur, France. Oil on linen canvas, circa 1925. 330x420 mm; 13x16 1/2 inches. Inscribed "Waterfront, Semur, France, Laura Wheeler Waring" in pencil, on a label attached to the painting back. Inscribed "Part of the Walter E. Waring Collection" in pencil across the verso. Provenance: Walter E. Waring, Philadelphia; private collection, Maryland. Walter E. Waring (1895-1973) was Laura's husband. Laura Wheeler Waring's distinguished career included two periods of study in Paris. Her first sojourn was interrupted by the beginning of World War I, and she eventually returned to Paris in June 1924. This second period is widely regarded as a turning point in her style as well as her career. Waring painted portraits until October when she enrolled for a year of painting study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. There she studied with Boutet de Monvel, and met Henry Ossawa Tanner and Gwendolyn Bennett - enjoying her "only period of uninterrupted life as an artist with an environment and associates that were a constant stimulus and inspiration. My savings, however, would not allow me to continue this life indefinitely." At the end of her French trip, she traveled south stopping in Semur- a hilly and very scenic medieval town in Burgundy that was a favorite of landscape artists. Historians cite a landscape from this trip entitled, The Houses at Semur, 1925, as a breakthrough work that was exhibited on both sides of Atlantic. Sharpley-Whiting pp. 86-87.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 06, 2015
Laura Wheeler Waring, (American, 1887-1948), After Sunday Services, c. 1940, oil on canvas, 30" x 14.5"
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Laura Wheeler Waring (American, 1887-1948) After Sunday Services, c. 1940 oil on canvas signed lower right 30" x 14.5" Other Notes: Laura Wheeler Waring was born in Hartford, Connecticut to the Reverend Robert F. Wheeler and Mary (Freeman) Wheeler. Waring (née Wheeler) began painting watercolors in her early teens and won several awards before graduating from the Hartford Public High School in 1906 and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in 1914. In 1924, she traveled to Paris with novelist Jesse Redmon Fauset and furthered her studies at L'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere under Botel de Monvel, Robert Henri, and Delacluse. At this time, she began to gain recognition among an emerging group of African American artists. Henry Ossawa Tanner introduced her to artists Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, and Hale Woodruff as well as Langston Hughes and Roland Hayes. In 1927, she married Walter E. Waring, a professor at Lincoln University, an all-black college located in Jefferson City, MO. Waring was an accomplished landscape and still life painter, but her best known work is in portraiture. In 1927, she won the Harmon Foundation gold prize for her portrait Anne Washington Derry. She executed portraits of several prominent African Americans, including Marian Anderson and W.E.B. Du Bois - all of which are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Waring's work in figure painting was singled out once again by the Harmon Foundation in 1944, when eight of her portraits were shown in the exhibit, 'Portraits of Outstanding American Citizens of Negro Origin'. In addition to fine art, Waring also produced illustrations for the children's books published by Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, Inc., The Brownies Book, and for the cover of The Crisis. She also taught at Cheyney State Teachers College, PA, where she became director of the art department until 1945. Her work may be found in the collections of Howard University, Washington D.C.; Evan-Tibbs Gallery, Washington D.C.; Barnett-Aden Collection, Florida; and Cheyney State University, PA. This is the finest work to have ever been offered at auction by this artist, and an excellent example of her abilities as a figure painter.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Apr. 02, 2015
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Untitled (Still Life with Tulips and Figurine).
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Untitled (Still Life with Tulips and Figurine). Oil on canvas board, circa 1940-45. 603x502 mm; 23 3/4x19 3/4 inches. Signed in oil, lower left. Provenance: the artist; Dorothy Warrick (niece of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller); thence by descent, private collection, MA.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 13, 2014
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit. Watercolor on cream wove paper, circa 1940. 292x355 mm; 11 1/2x14 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left recto. Provenance: estate of the artist; Milton Morris James, Yeadon, PA; private collection. Inscribed "'Still Life with Fruit' by Laura Wheelr Waring circa 1940, Property of Milton Morris James" in pencil, verso. This charming watercolor comes from the artist's studio in Cheyney, PA. Upon returning from her studies in Paris in 1928, Waring organized and directed both the music and art departments at the historically black Cheyney State Teachers College in Pennsylvania, now Cheyney University. Her work is found in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Howard University, all in Washington, DC.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 21, 2013
Attributed to Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948)
Est: £1,000 - £2,000
Attributed to Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) British. Portrait of a seated young lady, wearing a blue coat with a red collar, and a cream hat, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 30" x 25".
John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
Feb. 14, 2013
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Girl in Red Dress.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Girl in Red Dress. Oil on board, circa 1935. 457x355 mm; 18x14 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto. With the artist's name and Philadelphia address inscribed in red crayon on the verso. Provenance: the artist; Milton Morris James, Yeadon, PA; Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (2000); John Axelrod, Boston (2000), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011), with the gallery label on the frame back. Exhibited: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VII, New York, January 13 - March 4, 2000. Illustrated: Lisa E. Farrington, Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists, figure 4.7, p. 84; Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VII, p. 60. This striking oil painting of a beautiful young woman is the first portrait by this Pennsylvania artist to come to auction. Although they are very scarce today, Waring's portraits were known in Philadelphia and New York for capturing a new, modern sensibility. Farrington notes how "Warings's paintings, often portraits of friends, family and Harlem literati, are paradigmatic of the images of upscale blacks that marked the Harlem Renaissance." Waring showed her work at the Harmon Foundation in New York, the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia and at Howard University through the 1940s. Her work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Howard University, all in Washington, DC. Farrington p. 82.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 06, 2011
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit.
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Still Life with Fruit. Watercolor, circa 1940. 292x355 mm; 11 1/2x14 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left. Provenance: estate of the artist; Milton Morris James, Yeadon, PA; private collection. This charming watercolor comes from the artist's studio in Cheyney, PA. Upon returning from her studies in Paris in 1928, Waring organized and directed both the music and art departments at the historically black Cheyney State Teachers College in Pennsylvania, now called Cheyney University. Her work is found in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Howard University, all in Washington, DC.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 16, 2011
Laura Wheeler Waring (American/New York,
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Laura Wheeler Waring (American/New York, 1887-1948), "Still Life with a Jug, Lemon and Orange", 1940, watercolor on paper, monogrammed lower left, dated and inscribed by collector en verso, 7 1/2 in. x 10 1/8 in., framed. ?
Neal Auction Company
Apr. 16, 2011
Laura Wheeler Waring (American/New York,
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
Laura Wheeler Waring (American/New York, 1887-1948), "Perusing the National Gallery", 1940, watercolor on paper, signed lower left, inscribed in part "Laura Wheeler Waring(L) and her sister Mrs. Mary Alice McNeil(R) in the National Gallery, Washington, DC", and with a "Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, Penna" label en verso of backing board, 9 1/4 in. x 11 in., matted and framed. ?
Neal Auction Company
Feb. 23, 2010
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Untitled (Rural Landscape).
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Untitled (Rural Landscape). Oil on canvas board, circa 1940. 275x500 mm; 14 3/4x19 3/4 inches. Signed in oil, lower left. Provenance: estate of the artist; Milton Morris James, Yeadon, PA; private collection. Exhibited: Philadelphia African Americans: Color, Class, and Style, 1840-1940, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, April 4 - July 8, 1988. Illustrated: Philadelphia African Americans: Color, Class, and Style, 1840-1940, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Philadelphia. We have found only one other oil painting at auction by this important artist. Swann Galleries sold the first watercolor by this artist to appear at auction on October 8, 2009. This painting is from the same collection. This landscape offers a charming, Impressionist view of the scenery around the artist's studio in Cheyney, PA. Upon returning from her studies in Paris in 1928, Waring organized and directed both the music and art departments at the historically black Cheyney State Teachers College in Pennsylvania, now called Cheyney University. Her work is found in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Howard University, all in Washington, DC.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 08, 2009
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Corner of Laura Wheeler Waring's Studio, Cheyney, PA.
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
LAURA WHEELER WARING (1887 - 1948) Corner of Laura Wheeler Waring's Studio, Cheyney, PA. Watercolor, circa 1940. 305x393 mm; 12x15 1/2 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left. Provenance: estate of the artist; Milton Morris James, Yeadon, PA; private collection. Exhibited: Philadelphia African Americans: Color, Class, and Style, 1840-1940, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, April 4 - July 8, 1988. Illustrated: Philadelphia African Americans: Color, Class, and Style, 1840-1940, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Philadelphia, PA, fig. 281, pg. 91. We have found only one other painting at auction by this important artist. This watercolor offers a fascinating and intimate view of the artist's studio in Cheyney, PA. Upon returning from her studies in Paris in 1928, Waring organized and directed both the music and art departments at the historically black Cheyney State Teachers College in Pennsylvania, now called Cheyney University. Her work is found in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Howard University, all in Washington, DC.
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Feb. 28, 2005
WARING, LAURA WHEELER. Family [supplied title]. Oil on artist's board, 8x81/4 inches; small chip on surface in upper left quadrant; initialed lower
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WARING, LAURA WHEELER. Family [supplied title]. Oil on artist's board, 8x8 1/4 inches; small chip on surface in upper left quadrant; initialed lower left; framed. Np, 1930s-40s
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