Lot 91: WILLIAM TYLEE RANNEY 1813 - 1857

SWAMP (THE BUTTONWOOD GROVE)

20 by 24 in. (50.8 by 61.0 cm)

oil on canvas

Painted <EM>circa</EM> 1855.

(possibly) Linda Bantel, Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney with a Catalogue of His Works, Cody, Wyoming, 2006, no. 127, p. 156, as The Buttonwood Grove

(possibly) Sale: Ranney Fund, National Academy of Design, New York, December 1858, lot 44, as Finished Sketch from Nature
(possibly) William Menzies (sold: Catalogue of a Collection of Fine Modern Paintings by Celebrated American and Foreign Artists, Belonging to William Menzies, Esq., Messrs. Leavitt, Auctioneers, New York, April 18 and 19, 1876, lot 77, as The Buttonwood Grove)
Private collection, Stonington, Connecticut
By descent in the family to the present owner