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Lot 18: JAMES GOODWYN CLONNEY1812 - 1867

Est: $40,000 USD - $60,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USDecember 01, 2011

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF HELEN MARX
WHAT A CATCH!
signed Clonney and dated 1855, l.c.
oil on canvas
24 by 34 in.
(61 by 86.4 cm)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Cooperstown, New York, New York State Historical Association; Rochester, New York, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Albany, New York, Albany Institute; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Syracuse, New York, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts; New York, New York Historical Society, Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, 1958-59
Brockton, Massachusetts, Brockton Art Center, American Pastimes, 1977

Literature

M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings 1815-1865, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949, p. 182, no. 86, illustrated p. 183
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1969, vol. I, p. 53, no. 228

Provenance

Harry Shaw Newman, New York
M. & M. Karolik Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1947
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (sold: Sotheby Park Bernet, April 23, 1981, lot 21, illustrated in color)
Arcadia Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1981

Auction Details

American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

by
Sotheby's
December 01, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US