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Pearl S. Buck won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Pearl S. Buck Foundation auctions Redfield painting

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
Pearl S. Buck won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Pearl S. Buck won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

PERKASIE, Pa. (AP) – The Pearl S. Buck Foundation has raised $200,000 for renovations to the author’s home by selling off a painting owned by the writer, but a second painting up for auction failed to reach its reserve price.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the Edward Willis Redfield painting Spring was sold Sunday to an unidentified buyer.

The foundation says it had hoped to raise at least $350,000 through the sale of two paintings by the American impressionist but the other work failed to generate as much interest as hoped.

The Inquirer report says the foundation planned the sale to help pay for a $2.9 million restoration project at the Perkasie home once owned by The Good Earth author. The home is now a museum.

The author and Redfield were friends.

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Pearl S. Buck won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Pearl S. Buck won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.