Charles Dowler Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Charles Dowler Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 04, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler - Still Life with Cherries
Est: $100 - $200
Charles Parker Dowler (1841-1941) - Still Life with Cherries. Oil on artist's board. Unsigned. Framed size: H 10-1/2", W 14-1/8".Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream, deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful
New England Auctions
Oct. 04, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler - Bermuda Scene
Est: $200 - $400
Charles Parker Dowler (1841-1941) - Bermuda Scene. Oil on canvas. Framed size: H 20-3/4", W24-3/4". Canvas size: H 18", W 22".Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream, deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful career working in numerous mediums including sculpture, woodcarving, plaster, and jewelry making. His notable public, local works include the John Sparks Monument in Bristol and the Collyer Monument in Pawtucket. Additionally, his smaller wooden carvings are highly regarded in the Folk Art community and are sought after by collectors. His carved folk art race track tout figures have sold as high and $1,000,000.
New England Auctions
Oct. 04, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler - Before the Bath Sculpture
Est: $250 - $500
Charles Parker Dowler (1841-1941) - Before The Bath. Circa 1920. Plaster. H 41-1/4". Minor chips and imperfections. Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream, deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful career working in numerous mediums including sculpture, woodcarving, plaster, and jewelry making. His notable public, local works include the John Sparks Monument in Bristol and the Collyer Monument in Pawtucket. Additionally, his smaller wooden carvings are highly regarded in the Folk Art community and are sought after by collectors. His carved folk art race track tout figures have sold as high and $1,000,000.
New England Auctions
Oct. 04, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler -Plaster Relief of Child
Est: $100 - $200
Charles Parker Dowler- Plaster relief of child. H 15-1/4", W 12".Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream, deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful career working in numerous mediums including sculpture, woodcarving, plaster, and jewelry making. His notable public, local works include the John Sparks Monument in Bristol and the Collyer Monument in Pawtucket. Additionally, his smaller wooden carvings are highly regarded in the Folk Art community and are sought after by collectors. His carved folk art race track tout figures have sold as high and $1,000,000.
New England Auctions
Oct. 04, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler - Lady with Flowers- oil
Est: $200 - $400
painting Charles Parker Dowler (1841-1941) - portrait of a lady with flowers in her hair. Oil on artist's board. Signed LR and dated 1908. Framed size: H 21-3/4," W 15-3/4". Canvas size H 18-1/2", W12-1/4". Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream, deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful career working in numerous mediums including sculpture, woodcarving, plaster, and jewelry making. His notable public, local works include the John Sparks Monument in Bristol and the Collyer Monument in Pawtucket. Additionally, his smaller wooden carvings are highly regarded in the Folk Art community and are sought after by collectors. His carved folk art race track tout figures have sold as high and $1,000,000.
New England Auctions
Oct. 04, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler - two bronze plaques
Est: $100 - $200
Charles Parker Dowler (1841-1941) - Two small bronze plaques Dia. each 4". Unsigned. Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream, deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful career working in numerous mediums including sculpture, woodcarving, plaster, and jewelry making. His notable public, local works include the John Sparks Monument in Bristol and the Collyer Monument in Pawtucket. Additionally, his smaller wooden carvings are highly regarded in the Folk Art community and are sought after by collectors. His carved folk art race track tout figures have sold as high and $1,000,000.
New England Auctions
Oct. 04, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler Painting Bermuda
Est: $100 - $200
Charles Parker Dowler - Bermuda. Oil painting. Frame size: H 20", W 26-3/4"; opening: H 14-1/4", W 21-1/8". Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream,? deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful career working in numerous mediums including sculpture, woodcarving, plaster, and jewelry making. His notable public, local works include the John Sparks Monument in Bristol and the Collyer Monument in Pawtucket. Additionally, his smaller wooden carvings are highly regarded in the Folk Art community and are sought after by collectors.
New England Auctions
Oct. 03, 2020
Charles Parker Dowler - self portrait
Est: $150 - $250
Charles Parker Dowler (1841-1941) - self portrait. Pastel-chalk on paper. Framed size H25-5/8" W25-1/2" Charles Dowler was born in Birmingham, England in 1841, and came to America in 1863 to make munitions for the Union effort during the Civil War. After the war ended, Dowler embraced the “American Dream, deciding to abandon his profession as a gunsmith and pursue a career as an artist. He had a successful career working in numerous mediums including sculpture, woodcarving, plaster, and jewelry making. His notable public, local works include the John Sparks Monument in Bristol and the Collyer Monument in Pawtucket. Additionally, his smaller wooden carvings are highly regarded in the Folk Art community and are sought after by collectors. His carved folk art race track tout figures have sold as high and $1,000,000.
New England Auctions
Jan. 23, 2016
RACE TRACK TOUT |
Est: $200,000 - $300,000
With its original red-painted tall trapezoidal base composed of horizontal pine beaded boards, with old overlaid sheetmetal repairs, some fashioned from early cigar signage. Executed in Providence, Rhode Island circa 1880.
Sotheby's
Mar. 03, 2013
Carved and Polychrome-painted Racetrack Tout Tobacconist Figure, possibly carved by Charles Dowler (1841-1931), Providence, Rhode Islan
Est: $150,000 - $250,000
Carved and Polychrome-painted Racetrack Tout Tobacconist Figure, possibly carved by Charles Dowler (1841-1931), Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1880s, full-figure carving of a nattily dressed gent with curly brown hair, wearing a gray top hat, sporting a mustache over his open mouth, holding a cigar aloft in one hand, the other hand resting in the pocket of his red- and tan-striped trousers, with a pack of cigars held in the breast pocket of his black jacket; the figure stands on a carved wooden platform encased with canted wooden panels painted with layers of lettered advertising, overall ht. 70 1/2, ht. of figure 56 1/2, wd. of base 21 1/2, dp. of base 14 1/2 in. Note: The first horse racing track in North America was built on Long Island in 1665, and since then the sport has enjoyed immense and uninterrupted popularity. At every race track is a race track tout, a person whose advice on the race and associated bets flowed freely to anyone in earshot. In the nineteenth century, touts often cut a rather dandy figure, wearing close-cut trousers and flashy coats. The tout was such a well-known figure in American popular culture that he was a frequent subject for shop figure carvers. Radiating confidence and success, this tout is a particularly charming example of the type. His clothing is urbane, his mustache chic, and his cigar most likely lit. Indeed, it is easy to imagine that people were buying whatever he was selling! A close relative of the so-called cigar store Indian, he would have stood outside a shop with an advertisement painted on his base. The ghost of two separate such ads are evident on this example, which must have had a long career in the commercial sector. Based on his stance, clothing, and carving style, it is possible that this tout is the work of figure carver Charles Parker Dowler. Based in Providence, Rhode Island in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dowler advertised that he was a carver for hire, taking on work ranging from furniture to architecture and everything in between. Folk art collectors and scholars associate him most often with carved sporting characters, often called "dudes." Though many pieces have been mis-attributed to his hand, the resemblance is strong between this tout and the known example of Dowler's work that belonged to a Connecticut collector and was illustrated in the 1937 Index of American Design.
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