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Property from the C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection, Sold to Benefit the Audrey Love Foundation*

George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)

August Lundberg

Details

George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)
August Lundberg
signed and inscribed 'To Lundberg/Bellows' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25¼ x 18 in. (64.1 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1907.

Provenance

August Lundberg, Columbus, Ohio, by gift, 1907.
Mrs. V. DeLeon, daughter of the above.

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., George Bellows (1882-1925), May 11, 1971, no. 2 (as Portrait of A.F. Lundberg).

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Lot Essay

The present work is one of two known versions depicting August F. Lundberg, a fellow painter at school with Bellows.

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being compiled by Glenn C. Peck in cooperation with the artist's daughter.

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