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Description:
American School, 19th Century
Portraits of Charles Owen, Eunice Owen, and Laura Owen Bishop
Unsigned.
Watercolor on paper, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in., in mahogany and ebonized frames.
Condition: Not examined out of frames.
Provenance: Found in Ulster County, New York; Terri Steingrebe, Middletown, Pennsylvania, December 1976.
Exhibitions: Reflections of 19th Century America: Folk Art from the Collection of Sybil B. and Arthur B. Kern, Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts, September 19, 1979-June 15, 1980.
Provenance: The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art.
Estimate $300-500
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Charles Owen, Arthur B. Kern, Eunice Owen, Sybil Kern, Terri Steingrebe, Laura Owen Bishop, Middletown, LexingtonStephen L. Fletcher
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