Lot Essay
This watercolor relates closely to Butler's 1918 painting entitled Flag Day (illus. on the cover of Richard H. Love's Theodore Earl Butler: Emergence from Monet's Shadow, Chicago, 1985.)
Details
THEODORE EARL BUTLER (1876-1937)
Study for Flags
inscribed Sketch for "Flags" and dated 1918 on the reverse--watercolor and pencil on paper
13 x 10in. (33 x 25.4cm.)
Study for Flags
inscribed Sketch for "Flags" and dated 1918 on the reverse--watercolor and pencil on paper
13 x 10in. (33 x 25.4cm.)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Joe M. Leonard, Jr.
Joe M. Leonard, Jr.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, n.d.