American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists

Housed in a Frederick Harer frame.

Provenance:

The Artist.

J. J. Gillepsie Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Acquired directly from the above.

Dr. Fisher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1935.

The Artist, 1937.

Acquired directly from the above.

Harold D. Saylor, Philadelphia, April 1949.

By descent to a Private Collection, Pennsylvania, 1981.

By descent to a Private Collection, Pennsylvania, c. 1996.

Alderfer Auction Company, Sale of March 6-7, 2002, Lot 327.

Acquired directly from the above.

Private Collection, Pennsylvania.

Exhibited:

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, n.d (per label affixed to stretcher).

Literature:

Artist's Record Book I, page 51, lines 1-6.

Lance Humphries, Daniel Garber: Catalogue Raisonné, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2006. Vol. II, p. 230, P 639, illustrated.

Lot Note:

Grey November Day offers a late-autumn depiction of the Delaware River, the beating heart of Bucks County and Pennsylvania Impressionism. Painted from River Road above Lumberville, Pennsylvania, the river gleams with reflected light, while distant hills and houses—the Berger Farm in New Jersey—all but dissolve in delicate strokes. Garber, who both studied and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, brought sophistication and refinement to the New Hope colony. His technique relied on subtle gradations and blended tones—here, culminating in an illusion of depth and dimension. Grey November Day, deemed by Garber “one of [his] very best” in his Artist's Record Book demonstrates that Pennsylvania Impressionism was simultaneously grounded and transcendent, familiar and sublime.