Lot 220: L220 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE by listed DE LANCEY WALKER GILL

Original Antique Watercolor Landscape attributed to De Lancey Walker Gill 1859-1940. In original period frame. Born in Camden, South Carolina, Delancey Gill traveled and sketched extensively in Indian Territory. He had little formal education, and in 1887 became assistant draftsman in the supervising Architects office for the United States Government. The artist- scientist, William Henry Holmes, noted Gill's artistic ability and recommended him for illustration work with the US Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology. In this job, he sketched in Indian Territory, the Arizona desert, and the upper Yellowstone River Valley. Three of his Arizona pueblo paintings, dated 1888, are in the Smithsonian collection. He later taught art at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. He was the husband of painter, illustrator Mary Wright Gill and the father of artist Minna Partridge Gill. Mr. Gill spent many years in charge of the Illustrations Division of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian, and in such capacity took or processed several thousand photos of Native Americans, and created thousands of illustrations in Annual Reports of the Bureau, from the late 1800's through the late 1920s. His landscape oil paintings and watercolors sold well in galleries in New York, Pittsburgh and other cities, and hang in the Cosmos Club, the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and many private homes Ref:Doris Dawdy, Artists of the American West, Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art

L: 0.5 W: 14 H: 2 LB: 12 OZ:

minor frame wear

From the collection and living estate of Valverde from Charleston SC area.