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Dixie Selden’s The Pottery Vendor is estimated to sell for $30,000/50,000. Selden, a talented pupil of the famed Frank Duvenek, became prominent during her lifetime achieving accolades such as the Kenneth Maguire prize awarded to this painting. Her work has garnered attention by the art community; the Cincinnati Art Museum currently houses six of her works. In 2008 Cowan’s sold a Selden painting for $62,100, a world record for the artist.
Director of Paintings Graydon Sikes explained, “This is an exceptional impressionist example by Selden, with outstanding provenance and exhibition history, on the market for the first time in several decades.”
A large collection of Shaker furniture is expected to inspire competitive bidding in the auction. The collection comes from Cincinnati collector Frank Elsner, who, for over 50 years, found and bought all things Shaker from auctions to yard sales. A Shaker clothes press, circa 1830, is estimated to bring $2,000/2,500. A late 19th-century Shaker bonnet box and bonnets are expected to bring $1,000/2,000.
Diane Wachs, director of Fine and Decorative Arts notes, “Stepping into Frank Elsner’s house is like stepping right into an old shaker community.”
Cowan’s is offering an outstanding Hudson River Landscape estimated to bring $8,000/12,000. Although the artist is unknown, this landscape is housed in a beautiful Newcomb gilt and gesso frame. The frame, highly ornate and intricately molded, features a repeating decorative leaf pattern surrounded by a beaded band.
A logging scene by Glen Tracy, oil on canvas, is expected to bring $3,000/5,000. The historical painting portrays the early 20th-century’s deforestation practices of the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. Sikes commented, “In this monumental painting by Tracy, laborers are cutting and loading logs onto a train. Tracy, an artist with Cincinnati roots, captured beautifully a growing industry during the 1920s that caused such great change to the forested areas in North Carolina.” The painting will be offered with railroad model locomotives, estimated to sell for $7,000/9,000.
A marble bust by Moses Ezekiel titled The Dying Alexander is estimated to sell from $4,000/6,000. The Cincinnati sculptor studied in Berlin at the Royal Academy with Albert Wolff and Rudolf Siemering. The bust is executed in the style of Lysipus, the Greek sculptor of the fourth century B.C.
An outstanding collection of hand wrought coin silver passed down from the Clay, Warfield and Breckenridge families will also be offered at the auction. Two pieces in particular, a Kirk hot water urn, expected to bring $7,000/9,000, and an E.& D. Kinsey coin silver presentation pitcher, estimated to bring $3,000/4,000, are sure to capture the attention of institutions and collectors.
Featured in the auction is a strong collection of 20th-century outsider art, including three wooden folk art carvings by Charles Wileto (1897-1964), all estimated to sell for $2,300/2,600.
To learn more about Cowan’s Auctions visit their website at www.cowans.com or call 513-871-1670.
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