WALTER ELMER SCHOFIELD (1869-1944)

Details

WALTER ELMER SCHOFIELD (1869-1944)

McLegrenow Farm

signed Schofield and dated 20, l.l.--oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 35¾in. (76.5 x 90.8cm.)

Provenance

New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Sale: October 27, 1978, Lot 162)

Exhibited

New York, Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, no. 320
Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Directions in American Painting 1875-1925, June-Aug. 1982, pp. 78-79, illus. (this exhibition travelled to various locations, 1982-1987)
Youngstown, Youngstown State University, The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Oct. 1991-May 1992

Lot Essay

According to Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, this painting is one of a number of pictures executed by the artist between the years 1920 and 1927 in Devonshire and Cornwall. Although the exact location of the farm is not knows, it was likely in the vicinity of Truro.