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    Sale 8546

    Important American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

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    4 December 1996

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    Lot 23

    David Gilmour Blythe* (1815-1865)

    Land of Liberty

    Price realised

    USD 51,750

    Estimate

    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000

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    David Gilmour Blythe* (1815-1865)
    Land of Liberty
    signed 'Blythe' lower left
    oil on canvas
    24 x 20in. (61 x 50.8cm.)

    Provenance

    J.J. Gillespie Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Christian Wolff, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1860
    George David Thompson, Sr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1936
    George D. Thompson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his son, 1950
    Macbeth Galleries, New York
    Paul Peralta-Ramos
    Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    C.H. Wolff, "Oil Paintings," Ledger of Art Possessions 1857-1885, (unpublished manuscript), Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1860, pp. 30-31, no. 26
    D. Miller, The Life and Work of David G. Blythe, 1950, pp. 71-72, fig. 129
    B.W. Chambers, The World of David Gilmour Blythe (1815-1865), New York, pp. 66, 69, 156, fig. 45, illus.


    Exhibited

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, An Exhibition of American Genre Paintings, 1936, no. 10
    Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, The World of David Gilmour Blythe (1815-1865), 1980-1981, no. 23


    Lot Essay

    This painting was executed circa 1859.

    Other information

    Pre-Lot Text

    Property of RICHARD AND GLORIA MANNEY

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