Leonard Howard Reedy (1899-1956)

After the Sand Storm

Details

Leonard Howard Reedy (1899-1956)
After the Sand Storm
signed and dated 'Leonard H. Reedy 1934' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
8 x 10¾ in. (20.4 x 27.4 cm.)

Provenance

Gift of C.R. Smith, President of American Airlines, to Eleanor Roosevelt.
John A. Roosevelt, acquired from the above.
By descent in the family to the present owner.

Exhibited

Hyde Park, New York, Val Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site New York, Hammer Galleries, Exhibition and Sale, Personal Possessions from the Estate of Eleanor Roosevelt, September-October 1964, no. 993

Lot Essay

Born in Chicago, Leonard Reedy is known as Chicago's Cowboy Painter of the Old West. He worked in both watercolor and oil, having studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. It is said that Chicago restaurants have framed Reedy paintings and drawings in lieu of cash.

The remaining watercolors from the original set given to Eleanor Roosevelt are still on exhibition at the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Val Kill, Hyde Park, New York.

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