Skip to main content
John Garth (1889-1971) Study for Swing Shift 22 x 52in framed 22 3/4 x 52 7/8in (Painted circa 1939.) image 1
John Garth (1889-1971) Study for Swing Shift 22 x 52in framed 22 3/4 x 52 7/8in (Painted circa 1939.) image 2
Lot 48

John Garth
(1889-1971)
Study for Swing Shift 22 x 52in framed 22 3/4 x 52 7/8in

3 August 2021, 13:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$22,812.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our California Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

John Garth (1889-1971)

Study for Swing Shift
unsigned
oil on canvas affixed to board
22 x 52in
framed 22 3/4 x 52 7/8in
Painted circa 1939.

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, American and European Paintings and Sculpture, October 8, 1980, lot 308 (as 'Iron Workers').
Property from the Estate of George R. Bobbitt Jr., San Francisco, California.

A note from Kathy (nee Garth) Shea, the artist's daughter, dated October 20, 1995, authenticating the work as by John Garth, accompanies the lot.

The present work depicting iron workers was an oil study for John Garth's mural Swing Shift created for the Mines, Minerals and Machinery Building at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

Helen Thomas Dranga(1866-1928)Giant Banana Tree, Hawaiʻi 18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm)

Lionel Walden(1861-1933)Rocky Coastline 25 1/2 x 36 1/4 in.

David Howard Hitchcock(1861-1943)Lahaina Harbor, Maui, Looking Toward Moloka'i 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)

Ronaldo Macedo(born 1965)Return to Lahaina Harbor 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm) In the artist's frame.

Bumpei Akaji(1921-2002)Dante's Two Worlds 30 x 16 x 14 in., mounted to a wooden plinth

Attributed to Ogura Yonesuke Itoh(1870-1940)Halemaʻumaʻu, Kīlauea Caldera 5 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (14.6 x 24.8 cm)

Betty Ecke(Tseng Yu-Ho) (1925-2017)Landscape with Echeveria sheet 16 1/8 x 17 3/8 in.

Lloyd Sexton, Jr.(1912-1990)Puako Ponds 29 x 40 in. (73.7 x 101.6 cm) In a Koa wood frame.

Edgar Payne(1883-1947)Brittany Boats 28 1/8 x 34 1/8 in.

Julian Onderdonk(1882-1922)Landscape with Cactus and Bluebonnets 12 x 16 in.

Julian Robles(born 1933)Cloud sight 12 x 18 1/4 in.

Maurice Braun(1877-1941)Trees Along a Mountain Ridge 25 x 30 in. framed 32 x 37 in.

ALEXANDER NEPOTE (1913-1986) Snow Ridge Cascade circa 1960 oil and tempera on canvas, signed 'ALEXANDER NEPOTE' lower right 56 1/4 x 70in (142.7 x 177.5cm)

Richard Langtry Partington(1868-1929)Boulder Creek (Santa Cruz Mountains, California) 12 x 16 in. framed 19 x 23 1/4 in.

Dong Kingman(1911-2000)Coastal View sight 12 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. framed 24 x 20 1/2 in.

William Keith(1838-1911)Mount Shasta, Indian Camp 14 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. framed 23 x 20 in.

Attributed to Giuseppe Dangelico Pino(born 1939)Restful 24 x 40 in

Eunice MacLennan(1886-1966)Pelicans 30 x 24 in. framed 36 x 30 in.