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Lot 35

Lowell Birge Harrison
(1854-1929)
The Red Mill at Cos Cob 29 x 34in

22 November 2016, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$27,500 inc. premium

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Lowell Birge Harrison (1854-1929)

The Red Mill at Cos Cob
signed 'Birge Harrison' (lower left), signed again (lower right) and signed again and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
29 x 34in

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Mrs. Birge Harrison, Woodstock, New York, by descent from the above.
Mr. Thomas H. Denman, acquired from the above, circa 1930s.
By descent to the present owner from the above.

Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Birge Harrison, December 30, 1912-January 19, 1913, no. 8.
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, and elsewhere, Two Exhibitions of Paintings by Alexander Harrison and Birge Harrison, September 10, 1913-April 14, 1914.
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, A Retrospective Collection of Paintings by Alexander Harrison, N.A., and Birge Harrison, N.A., October 4-26, 1914, no. 28.

Literature
C.M. Kurtz, C.B.S. Quinton and W.M. Hekking, Academy Notes, vol. VIII, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, January 1913-October 1913, p. 172, illustrated in situ.
The American Magazine of Art, The American Federation of Arts, vol. VIII, May 1917, no. 7, p. 292.
R.H. Love, Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport, Rochester, New York, 1999, p. 267.

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