Lot 207
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905-1983)

Rail Shooting

Details
Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905-1983)
Rail Shooting
signed 'Pleissner' lower right
watercolor and gouache on paper
sight: 14½ x 21 5/8in. (36.8 x 54.9cm.)
Provenance
Lapham & Dibble Gallery, Inc., Shoreham, Vermont
Exhibited
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, Pleissner Memorial Exhibition, August-September 1995

Lot Essay

According to Samuel B. Webb, Ogden Pleissner's good friend, this watercolor was painted in 1956 and depicts Howard Newton and his guide Oliver La Place setting out to hunt railbirds in Lord's Cove, Lyme, Connecticut.