|
|
|
|
Rafael Osona's
AUCTION NEWS
______________________
____________________________Watch for it Wednesdays__________________________________________________ photo by Cary HazlegroveNext Auction
Saturday, August 15th9:30 a.m.PreviewThursday, August 13th
Friday, August 14th10:00 - 5:00American Legion Hall, 21 Washington St., Nantucket(map)
|
Anne Ramsdell Congdon (American 1873-1958)"Fishing Boats"
oil on
board, signed lower left Anne Congdon; dated
indistinctly.
14 in. x 18 in.
Congdon was and is considered an artist of merit. She made significant
contributions to the development of Nantucket as an artist's colony.
J. B. Reid Watercolor on Paper "Heart's Ease, Siasconset "
Jane Brewster
Reid (1862 - 1966) was active on Nantucket
from 1891 through the 1930's. A summer visitor who hailed from Rochester, NY,
Reid's soft focus watercolors served to idealize the quaint village
of 'Sconset, just as a budding Art Colony began to flourish.  J.
Cromartie Acrylic on Canvas "Madaket Shack" signed lower right J.
Cromartie
21½ in. x 33 in. There's a sharp precision to contemporary artist, James Cromartie's hard edge realism - lots of exquisite detail, and a good helping of quiet peacefulness.
 Doris and
Richard Beer, (1898-1967 & 1893-1959) Watercolor on Paper, "Orange
Street", signed and titled in
pencil, D & R Beer, 3 ¾ in. x 4 ¼
in.
When Doris Beer wasn't designing sets for the Straight Wharf Theatre, she watercolored Richard's sketches at their North Wharf studio, producing in tandem some of Nantucket's most coveted miniature paintings.
 18th
Century English Oak Two Door Wardrobe
over Five Drawers
Height 74 in.Width 55 in. Depth 24 in.  Chinoiserie's figurative elements and exotic motifs suited Louis XIV's purposes in a Versailles salon, and was equally "of the moment" during America's Roaring '20's.
Vintage 1920's
Chinoiserie Decorated Double Pedestal Desk with inset leather top Height 30 in. Width 55 in. Depth 29 in.
 Set of Eight French Provincial
Fruitwood Tall Ladder-back Dining Chairs
with rush seats, two arms and six sides. (six of eight illustrated)
Five Piece 19th
Century Cast Iron Patio Set with scallop shell and seahorse ornamentation.
 Earl Collins
(American 1925-1992) Oil; "Stove
by a Whale", signed lower right, Earl Collins 24 in. x 36 in. Collins became the Captain of two large merchant ships, and
in 1962 acquired and became Captain of the largest commercial sword fishing
vessel in the United States.
Collins' works are represented in The U.S. Navy Collection. He was a
member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1971.
________________________________
|
Looking Back
Selected Prices Realized
August 1st
Americana, Continental, Maritime & Fine Art Auction
(more to follow next week)
European Folk Art Carving of Lord Nelson, 19th century, Height 35 in.
$6380.
 
Important Carved and
Scrimshanded Whale Ivory Walking Stick, circa 1850; A serpent within and
wrapped around a perfect clenched fist; stone eyes, scrimshawed body and
extended forked tongue; carved shirt cuff with mother of pearl inset button on
a tapering tree branch shaft, ending in a 2 ¼ in. whale ivory ferrule of the
same deep patina and color as fist. $11,600.
Louisiana Folk Art
Carved and Decorated Statue of Young Louis Armstrong at the mike,
passionately singing in a white suit, holding his horn and handkerchief. Height 40 in.
$3016.
 Ralph Cahoon (American 1910-1982) "Kite Flying at Brant Point", oil on masonite: in walnut frame with gilt liner; signed lower right, R Cahoon.
$41,760.
 A. D. Williams Miniature Covered Nantucket Basket, with brass name plate on swing handle; engraved, "Edgar Seeler"; original paper label on base, "Light Ship Basket Made by A.D. Williams, 120 Orange St., Nantucket, Mass. Nov. 17, 1918."
Height 5 in. Diameter 5. in.
$26,680.
 Rare Nantucket Pierced Whalebone Swing Handle Basket, circa 1850, pine oval bottom with a conforming interlocking circles basket carved from a single piece of pan-bone, and a swing handle attached with rivets. Height 3 in. Width 4 in. Length 7 in.
$13,920.
Prices realized include the buyer's premium.
|
NantucketArtists
"Fishing Boats", oil on board, signed lower left, Anne Congdon
and dated indistinctly; 14 in. x 18 in.
To be offered August 15th
 Anne Ramsdell
Congdon (1873 - 1958)
In 1946 the Artist's Association of Nantucket mounted a
retrospective exhibition of five artists deemed to be "of national importance."
They were Henry S. Eddy, Edgar Jenney, Emerson Tuttle, Anne Ramsdell Congdon and
Eastman Johnson. Today, Congdon's expressive, wet-to-wet brushwork in heavy
impasto, her brilliant, sometimes exaggerated color, and her impeccable
massing of vibrant shapes eloquently express the voice of an artist of
consequence.
Born in Nashua
NH to Governor George A. and Eliza
Wilson Ramsdell, Anne Ramsdell Congdon began her art studies at the age of
seven. Her endeavor continued at a private school in Worcester,
MA, and as a young woman, continued at the
Académie Delecluse in Paris.
Back in the States again, she studied under Rhoda Holmes Nichols, an assistant
of William Merritt Chase, in Chase's summer art school near Ogunquit, Maine.
While her earliest work - through 1902 - was in watercolor, plein air painting became Congdon's
focus, and she began composing her palette in oils. Further studies with renowned
American Impressionist painter, Charles Woodbury were definitive in the further
development of Congdon's painterly style. One of the most highly respected teaching
artists of his day, Woodbury trained his students to see - that is, to strengthen
their capacity for both observation and their memory. He challenged his
students doggedly to be decisive; to paint motion.
Congdon rose to the challenge.
Anne Ramsdell Congdon married Dr. Charles E. Congdon, a Nantucket
native who had a medical practice in Nashua.
The couple summered on Nantucket, though it was not until years later that
Congdon began to paint the Island in earnest, as she had put aside her easel altogether,
in order to raise the couple's two sons. Upon Dr. Congdon's retirement in 1930,
the family took up residence in Nantucket, where Anne R. Congdon soon established
a studio in one of the cold-water shanties along Commercial Wharf.
Those shanties were suddenly being populated by artists, and Frank Swift Chase,
whom the AAN described as "dean of Island
painters and teachers" was leading the settlement. Amid a community of like minded artists, and
under Chase's influence, Congdon's canvases grew larger and her expression more
exaggerated; reminiscent of Van Gogh and the Post Impressionists.
Working in the plein air
tradition, Congdon painted en situ. From Woodbury, she'd learned to complete each
painting in one sitting. If, when she returned to her studio the finished
painting was not satisfactory, it was disposed of. Anne R Congdon painted - and
celebrated - Nantucket's wharves, her moors, her
creeks, ponds and pastures.
Congdon's paintings are among the permanent collections of the
Nantucket Historical Association, The Artist's Association of Nantucket, and
the Egan Maritime Institute. She was an active member of the Artists Association,
a leader in the development of Nantucket's
annual Sidewalk Art Show, as well as in various other civic volunteer
capacities, including Trustee of the NHA and a co-founder of the Hospital
Thrift Shop. Additionally, her work has been exhibited in Manchester
and Nashua, New Hampshire,
Lowell, Mass.,
and at the Boston Society of Independent Artists.
Carolyn
Walsh
(ref: Margaret Moore Booker, Picturing Nantucket; Michael A. Jehle,
editor; Egan Maritime Institute, and Nantucket
Historical Association.)
|
SEEKING FINE
CONSIGNMENTS
FOR AUCTION
Antiques - Americana -
Maritime & Fine Art
Nantucket Art & Baskets
   
|
AUCTION NEWSis a publication of Rafael Osona, Nantucket, MA copyright 2009 all rights reserved
Copy & layout by Carolyn Walsh
www.NantucketAuctions.com
21 Washington Street, Nantucket, MA 02554 508-228-3942 osona@rafaelosonaauction.com |
|
|
|
|
|
|
