Lot 62: Four portraits

Four young beauties.

19.5 x 9" each

Charcoal, pencil and pastel highlights

ca. 1910

Each signed ll; Reportedly, the subjects are Gunn's wife and three daughters. One of the subjects is, at least, remarkably similar to a piece that Gunn did for a piece entitled: Three American Graces: Present Day Types of New York Girls as Depicted by Archie Gunn which ran in the April 14, 1907 issue of New York Herald Sunday newspaper. A lminated tearsheet as well as several other clippings on the artist and a photo portrait of him are included in the lot.