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Premier Auction - Session II - July 15, 2023

Sat, Jul 15, 2023 09:00AM EDT
  • Collections of the Darsie-Thomson Families, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lot 919

Johanna Hailman

Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$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

(Pennsylvania, 1871-1958)

Pittsburgh Steel Mills, circa 1950s, signed lower left "Johanna Hailman", oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.; gilt wood frame, 35-1/2 x 45-1/2 in.

Note: Attached to the stretcher verso was a note about the painting: "Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Mills looking from Oakland across Monongahela River to South Side, Pittsburgh by Johanna Knowles Woodwell Hailman. On the basis of this picture, the artist obtained a one-man show at the Philadelphia Academy of Art. Given by the artist on January 19, 1958." 

 

Condition

original canvas and stretcher bars, crackle, surface dirt layer: frame with wear

Property from the Thomson House, 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, built by Thomas Chalmers Darsie; by descent to Anne Darsie Thomson then to Robert Thomson; Gifted 2014 to Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania