Lot 9: Wells Moses Sawyer (American, 1863-1960)

Wells Moses Sawyer (American, 1863-1960)
Winter at Snug Rock
signed 'WELLS M SAWYER' (lower right)
oil on board
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1936.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 47th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, 1936, no. 186.
Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, 1937, no. 77.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 134th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1939.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, 1940.
Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Biennials of the Past, 3 February-3 April 1983.
Washington D.C., President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities, June 1983-September 1997, on long-term loan.

D. Phillips, A Catalogue of the collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1973, II, pp. 59-60.
A.J. Cosentino and H.H. Glassie, The Capital Image: Painters in Washington 1800-1915, 1983, fig. 162.

PROPERTY FROM THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND
(LOTS 9-18)
This lot is offered without reserve.