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American & Southern | March 13, 2025

Thu, Mar 13, 2025 10:00AM EDT
Lot 1166

Franklin Boggs

Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000

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(Wisconsin/Indiana, 1914-2009) 

New Trailer Thresher, 1942, signed and dated lower right "Franklin Boggs 42", oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.; carved gilt wood frame, 33-3/4 x 43-3/4 in.

Provenance: Case Auctions, July 18, 2019, sold for a hammer price of $7,500.

Exhibited:  Associated American Artists, New York, NY, n.d. An announcement  for the inclusion of this painting in the exhibition, showing a photograph of the work, was printed in the Knoxville News Sentinel on March 28, 1943. A photocopy of same is attached at the back of the frame. 

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Case Auctions, July 18, 2019, sold for a hammer price of $7,500.

original stretcher and canvas, surface dirt; frame with wear and abrasions