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John Devaney

 
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JULY 17th
AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS
Absentee Bids Welcome 


A Sampling of Sterling Silver...
Pair of Chinese Export Reticulated Dishes, Pair Candlesticks,
Charger, Letter Holder, Asparagus Tongs, Stuffing Spoon



José Formoso Reyes Nantucket Friendship Basket
with oval ebony top, ivory peg and knobs,
and Charlie Sayle carved ivory whale,
signed upon the base "Made in Nantucket, José Formoso Reyes"
Width 9 in. 



Bill and Judy Sayle Nantucket Friendship Basket
with scrimshaw ivory plaque by D. Grant Viera '85,
ivory peg and knobs,
signed upon the base, "Made in Nantucket, B & J Sayle 1985"
Width 10 in.



Jan L. Munro Mixed Media on Mounted Canvas
"View of the Swan Boats in the Public Gardens, Boston"
signed lower right, "J.L. Munro © 2010"
18 in. x 24 in.
Munro's works are included in numerous private collections and exhibitions: Smithsonian Institute, Museum of American Folk Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Piece-Hall Gallery - London, United States Olympic Commission, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Secretary of State Clinton, Art Garfunkel, Sir Anthony Hopkins, The Beach Boys, and others.



19th Century Pennsylvania "Princess Feather"
Allover Applique Quilt
72 in. x 75 in.



Early 20th Century Japanese Step Tansu Chest
Height 64 in. Width 43 ½ in. Depth 20 in.


 

Antique Nantucket Round Open Swing Handle Basket with wood ears
Diameter 8 in.

Nantucket Round Open Swing Handle Basket,
signed March 1917, "CCA Appleton"
Diameter 6 ½ in.

Early Nantucket Round Open Swing Handle Basket
Diameter 6 in.



Cadet Blue and White Patchwork Star Pattern Quilt, circa 1930
80 in. x 65 in.  

Early 19th Century Chippendale One Drawer Writing Table
Height 28 in.  Width 35 in.  Depth 21 ¼ in.

Mid 18th Century Queen Anne Rush Seat Side Chair
Height 41 in.  

Pair of Steeple and Ball Top Brass Andirons, circa 1820 
Height 18 ½ in.  

Pair of Brass Tavern Candlesticks
Height 11 in. 



Ruth Haviland Sutton (American 1898-1960)
Colored Pencil on Paper "Orange Street"
Signed lower right, "Ruth Haviland Sutton"
8 ½ in. x 8 ½ in.




An Assortment of Signed Steuben Art Glass...
Vases, Candlesticks, Cream Pitcher, Eagle Figure



Roy Tidmarsh, Oil on Board
 "Visiting the Russell Coates Museum, Bournemouth",
Signed lower left.
10 in. x 13 in.
Tidmarsh was born in Birmingham, England and studied at the Mosley School of Art and Birmingham College of Art. He is listed in Artists in Britain Since 1945 by David Buckman and has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

 



Watercolor on Paper,
"Nantucket Street Scene with Unitarian Church in the Distance"

signed indistinctly lower right,
13 ½ in. x 12 ½ in.



Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Service in the "Chantilly" Pattern
comprising 12 Knives, 12 Forks, 12 Salad Forks, 12 Teaspoons,

12 Soup Spoons, 12 All Sterling Butter Knives, Large Pierced Buffet Fork
.



 Leroy Neiman (New York b. 1921)
Limited Edition Silk Screen on Chart,
 "Nantucket Sailing,"
signed lower right, "Leroy Neiman", Edition 215/300
21 ¾ in. x 25 ¾ in




Set of Eight American Tiger Maple Cane Seat Side Chairs,
19th Century


 

Doris and Richard Beer, Watercolor on Paper
"Old North Slip"
titled lower left in pencil, signed lower right, "D & R Beer"
 3 ½ in. x 4 in.




 Doris and Richard Beer, Watercolor on Paper
"Pleasant Street Corner"
titled lower left in pencil, signed lower right, "D & R Beer"
 3 ½ in. x 4 in.




Set of Six Jane Eckelberry Gouaches on Paper
Depicting Piping Plovers

Painted by Eckelberry for a fabric design
depicted in the seventh framed image.



Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (French 1867-1901)
Color Lithograph

"Le Petit Trottin"
(The Little Errand Girl)
The print carries the monogram of Toulouse-Lautrec printed with the image off the stone. Le Petit Trottin is listed in the Adhemar Catalogue under 18 and in the Delteil Catalogue under 27; this impression is from the first of two states.


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Nantucket Artists

JohnDevaneyJohn Devaney


"Winter Choir" oil on canvas,
35 1/2 in. x 36 in.
To be offered during our July 17th Auction

John Devaney (Contemporary, American)
Anyone even thinking about taking a good look at a John Devaney painting should first pause and breathe deep. Ready yourself intellectually by thinking monumentally: Think double - No, triple! - banana split, oozing with excess.  Open your mind to  excesses.  Now apply that same exercise in provocative thought to investigating Devany's layers of allusion, paradox and symbolism. Think pulpits and theatres and Sanford Farm vistas, August phosphorescence, disgorging ferries, New York's mid-town caverns, Time Square's cacophony Boston Brahmin and Quaker meetings....  Imagine the dynamics of it all - the inanimate animating the animate.  Metaphors.  Life masquerading as life.  Teeming.
 
John Devaney's paintings orchestrate a human parade, moving; eternally moving through an ebb and flow of consciousness, abundant and sensory; emotively staged and perfectly illuminated against the tension that lives between symbolism and allusion, rock-solid (?) inanimate and the human condition.
~ Carolyn Walsh
 
John Devaney is a former Faculty member of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Institute of Boston; and the Carpenter Center, Harvard University.

Devaney is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship in Painting, Research and Teaching Fellowships at Harvard's Carpenter Center, and artist residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell Artist Colonies.


His work has been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, MIT List Visual Art Center, and the Lyman Allan Art Museum, the Newport Art Museum, the Brockton Triennial, the Danforth Museum of Art, Harvard University, a ten-year retrospective at Miami-Dade College, University of California at Irvine, and the Springfield Museum of Art.


Major mural commissions include the 2400 square foot painting for the University of Connecticut's Natatorium and the Water Fountain of Danehy. ~ Excerpted from John Devaney website
 
 
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Significant Works by Women 
among the
Early Nantucket Artists' Colony


 
ANNE RAMSDELL CONGDON (AMERICAN 1873-1958)
"Topgale", oil on masonite
Signed lower right, "Anne Congdon, 1940"
  14 in. x 18 in.




MARTHA CAHOON (MASSACHUSETTS 1905-1999)
"The Fairgrounds", oil on Swedish masonite
Depicting hot air balloons flying over a whimsical county fairgrounds scene
with carousel proudly displaying the American flag, two activities tents,
families with their horses and pet dogs, children playing and running about,
livestock, and a distant lake with sailboats on the horizon;
signed lower right, "Martha Cahoon"
 23 in. x 28 ½  in.



GEORGIA KLITGAARD (NEW YORK 1893-1976)
"Pacific Club", oil on canvas
Signed lower right, "G. Klitgaard"
Titled on the stretcher, "The Pacific Club, G. Klitgaard, Bearsville, NY" 
22 in. x 28 in.

Klitgaard studied at the National Academy of Design and Barnard College
in New York City.  She exhibited at the Carnegie Institute,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and others. 
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the 1930's and received awards from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Pan American Exposition,
Carnegie Institute and the San Francisco Art Association.
Klitgaard's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,
the Brooklyn Museum and Museum of Modern Art; others as well.




MARY BRADISH TITCOMB (MASSACHUSETTS 1858-1927)
"Unitarian Church, Stone Alley" watercolor on artist's board
View of two women strolling down Stone Alley, Nantucket,
Signed lower right, "W.B. Titcomb" 
17 in. x 12 in.



 ANNIE BARKER FOLGER (MASSACHUSETTS 1852-1936)
"Nantucket Moors"
Pastel on paper,

Signed lower left, "A.B. Folger" 
9 ½ in. x 16 in.


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