Sale 2105
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$4,000 – $6,000
Proceeds from the painting's sale will go directly to Alzheimer's Research UK, Britain's leading dementia research charity, and will help fund research on Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of dementia.
Provenance:
The Artist.
The Estate of the Artist.
By descent in the Artist's family.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Exhibited:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute (as Dogwood), October - November 1930.
New York, Allied Artists of America, Inc., Annual Open Exhibition, February 1931.
Baberch Gallery, March 1931.
New York, National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, 1932, no. 194.
(Possibly) Montreal, Windsor Hotel, May 1932.
New York, Forum Galleries, "The First Municipal Art Exhibition," March 1934.
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, October 1934.
Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, Exhibition of Oils by Emma Fordyce MacRae of New York City, March 1935 (illustrated on the cover).
Boston, Doll and Richards, "Solo Exhibition," 1935.
New York, The MacDowell Club, "Solo Exhibition," October 1935.
New York, Grand Central Galleries, December 1939, no. 5.
Gloucester, Cape Ann Museum, Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887 - 1974, March 1 - July 20, 2008, no.4.
Literature:
Cape Ann Museum, Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A., 1887 - 1974, exhibition catalogue, Gloucester, 2008, p. 6, no. 4, illus.
K. E. Quinn, "Paintings of Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. (1887-1974)," American Art Review, vol. XX, no. 2, March 2008, p. 70, illus.
Note:
The present work hung in the artist's dining room at 888 Park Avenue, New York, New York.
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Adam Veil
VP, Head of Department, American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists