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Premier Auction | May 19, 2023

Fri, May 19, 2023 09:00AM EDT
Lot 748

Gayle Porter Hoskins

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

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(American, 1887-1962)

The Burning Galleon, 1926, signed lower right "Gayle Hoskins", titled, dated label verso, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in.; gilt wood frame, 41 x 29 in.

 

Note: This painting is an illustration for the story The Man They Hanged, by Robert Chambers, which appeared in Everybody's Magazine, February 1926, with the caption "We had Run the Leaky Old Galley Ashore". 

Condition

crackle, stretcher marks, surface dirt; frame with abrasions

Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware (label verso); The American Illustrator Collection of Sarah S. Harrison, Wilmington, Delaware