"Progress" Eagle Penmanship Exercise

Description:

"Progress" Eagle Penmanship Exercise, Charles Paxton Zaner, Columbus, Ohio, 1891, depicting a large eagle in flight above a "Progress" banner, signed "WITH A PEN C.P. ZANER, COLUMBUS, IO 1891," ht. 19 1/2, wd. 25 in.

Note: C.P. Zaner (1864-1918) was an accomplished penman who founded the Zanarian Art College in Columbus, Ohio, in 1888.
Provenance: The Collection of Robert Cooney.
Estimate $300-500

subtle rippling to the paper, toned overall, faint fingerprint smudge at left edge (possibly the artist's?). not examined out of frame


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