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Fri, Jul 11, 2014 06:30PM EDT - Sun, Jul 13, 2014 06:30PM EDT
Lot 461

Will Shuster

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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(New Mexico, 1893-1969) Mountains and Desert, 1922, signed lower right "Shuster/22" and inscribed verso "NPGG-26", watercolor on paper, 8-7/8 x 10-3/4 in.; modern giltwood frame hinged in at top and taped at corners with archival tape, glue and paper residue verso at three points. Notes: Along with Fremont Ellis, Jozef Bakos, Walter Mruk and Willard Nash, Will Shuster founded the avante garde art colony known as [Los Cinco Pintores]. In 1921 they had their first exhibition at the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts.. Provenance: Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Montage, Santa Fe, New Mexico (labels verso); Private Collection

Condition

hinged in at top and taped at corners with archival tape, glue and paper residue verso at three points