WILLIAM TYLEE RANNEY* (1813-1857)

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WILLIAM TYLEE RANNEY* (1813-1857)

First Fish of the Season

signed William Tylee Ranney and dated 1849 in the bow of the boat --oil on canvas
27 x 40in. (68.6 x 101.7cm.)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Private Collection, Colorado
J.N. Bartfield Art Galleries, Inc., New York

Literature

H.T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists, American Artist Life, New York, 1867, p. 630
E. Strahan, ed., Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1880, Vol. III, pp. 92, 108
F. Grubar, William Ranney, Painter of the Early West, New York, 1962, p. 47, no. 96

Lot Essay

Related Literature:
M.E. Thistlethwaite, William Tylee Ranney: East of the Mississippi, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1991, pp. 32-39
E.C. Pennington, Passage and Progress in the Works of William Tylee Ranney, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia, 1993