American School, Probably New Hampshire, c. 1820 Unlucky Girls

Description:

American School, Probably New Hampshire, c. 1820

Unlucky Girls
Unsigned.
Watercolor, ink, and gouache on paper, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in., in a red-painted frame.
Condition: Minor darkening near u.r. corner.

Provenance: Found in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire; Stephen Score, Essex, Massachusetts; Daphne Farago, Providence, Rhode Island; Zweig Gallery, Salem, New York, May 4, 1993.

Literature: Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985),p. 85.

Exhibitions: Four Rhode Island Collectors of American Folk Art: Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Maxim Karolik, and Daphne Farago, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, September 27-November 17, 1986.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $1,500-2,500


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