Lot 215: 3 - HENRY LEE MCFEE 1886-1953 PETUNIAS AND PHLOX

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS) signed ARTIST'S NATIONALITY American MATERIAL/MEDIUM oil on canvas EXECUTED IN Painted in 1926 PROVENANCE Carl W. Hamilton, New York (by 1931); William Macbeth, Inc., New York; Henry C. Bentley, Boston (1936) EXHIBITED Toledo Museum of Art, 23rd Annual, 1936, no. 43; Columbia, University of Missouri, 1944; South Bend Art Association, Group of 15 American Paintings Lent by the Toledo Museum, 1949; Morehead State College Art Gallery, Kentucky, 15 Paintings by Modern American Artists Lent by the Toledo Museum at the Opening of the College, 1949, no. 2; Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum, 1901-1951, 1951; Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Flower Exhibition, 1952; Washington DC, National Museum of American Art; Claremont, California, Galleries of Claremont Colleges; Framingham, Massachusetts, Danforth Museum; Greensburg, Westomoreland Museum; Lewisburg, Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Henry Lee McFee and Formalist Realism in Aemrican Still Life, 1986-7, p. 52 and 57, plate 8 LITERATURE V. Barker, Henry Lee McFee, New York, 1931, illustrated, p. 40; The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 82, plate 186; American Magazine of Art, vol. 29, October, 1936, illustrated p. 662; The Toledo Museum of Art, Museum News, no. 76, September, 1936, illustrated PUBLISHED CONDITION NOTE Not lined Surface: in good condition Under Ultra Violet: no apparent inpainting

<p>30 1/8 by 24 in. 76.6 by 61 cm.</p>