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Fri, May 11, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 138

Elmer Stanley Hader

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Bid Increments

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$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
(New York/California, 1889-1973)

Portrait of Latrobe Carroll, 1923, signed lower left "Elmer Hadley '23", oil on board, 18 x 24 in.; modern wood frame, 20 x 26-1/4 in.The writer Latrobe Carroll and his illustrator wife Ruth were a well known children's book writing team. They moved to Asheville from New York in 1950, and subsequently produced twelve children's books based on Appalachian life. 

Condition

not examined out of frame, grime, overall spots of mildew, chipping at corners under frame; frame with  minor surface wear