Esther (1907) Williams Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Esther (1907) Williams Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 21, 2024
ESTHER WILLIAMS OIL PAINTING
Est: $100 - $150
ESTHER WILLIAMS (American 1907-1969) Picking Berries Oil on board Signed lower left, inscribed on verso 23.75 inches x 19.75 inches, overall including frame 31.5 inches x 27.75 inches SHIPPING NOTICE: Except for large, oversized items, Jackson's is your sole and only source for one stop packing and shipping. With over 50 years of experience, our professional, affordable and efficient in-house shipping department will be happy to provide you a fair and reasonable shipping quote on this lot. Simply email us before the auction for a quick quote: shipping@jacksonsauction.com or call 1-800-665-6743. Jackson's can expertly pack and ship to meet any of your needs. To ensure quality control Jackson's DOES NOT generally release to third party shippers, with the exception being large, oversized items.
Jackson's International
Jul. 20, 2023
Esther Williams, New York, Massachusetts, Iowa (1907 - 1969), Above Paris, lithograph, 10 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W (sight), 12 1/2"H x 17 1/2"W (mat)
Est: $100 - $200
Esther Williams New York, Massachusetts, Iowa, (1907 - 1969) Above Paris lithograph Numbered 24/30 and titled lower left. Signed lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: She was from a Boston family that included numerous painters, among them her mother, Esther Baldwin Williams (1867-1964), with whom she has at times been confused, her mother's cousin Adelaide Cole Chase (1868-1944), and Chase's father, Joseph Foxcroft Cole (1837-1892), who taught art to his daughter and niece. Cole was a prominent proponent in America of the Barbizon landscape school of painting, having studied in France with Charles-Émile Jacque (1813-1894), and he was a co-founder of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Williams enrolled at the Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston, in September 1925. There she studied with Philip L. Hale (1865-1931), who had been a student of American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) at the Art Students League in New York. In 1927, after having already begun showing her work in national exhibitions, Williams accompanied her older brother Tom, recently graduated from Harvard University's architecture school, on a "grand tour" of Europe that lasted a year and a half. They and two friends traveled around the continent in a rented car, and they were joined for a time by their parents in London and Paris. While abroad, Williams the younger studied, in 1928, with André Lhote (1885-1962), a painter who was very influential as a lecturer, author, and teacher and who had founded his own art school in Montparnasse, Paris in 1922. Williams' experience was thus similar to her mother's some fifty years earlier, when Baldwin Williams followed her cousin Adelaide and her uncle J. Foxcroft Cole to Paris for art studies. Following her return from Europe, Williams moved to New York by 1934 and entered the next stage of her career. She began to gain widespread recognition, and it was evidently around this time that she enrolled at the Art Students League of New York, whose liberal policies encouraged even brief and casual study there. In 1935, Williams was awarded the Lambert Purchase Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts—where she exhibited regularly from 1927 into the 1950s—for her Circus Horses, a painting of animals backstage in a circus tent. Also in 1935, she was awarded the Worcester (Massachusetts) Art Museum's Second Purchase Prize in their Biennial Exhibition, for her Between the Acts, Downie's Circus. And in 1938, another circus image, Waiting for the Cue, was awarded the Norman Harris Bronze Medal and was purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago during its Annual Exhibition of American Painting. Other museums also acquired Williams' paintings, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which bought her Handel Concerto, one of her many works with music or musicians as their subject. Among other honors the artist received was the $1000 award given in 1944 by The American Academy of Arts and Letters in recognition of Williams' "warm sensitive vision of life expressed through the medium of painting." These awards had the purpose of recognizing artists producing distinguished work in fields that offered little in the way of financial reward, to paraphrase the announcement that appeared in the New York Times on April 27, 1944. Earlier, in 1936, Williams had been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum. Perry Cott, Curator at Worcester and later Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., described Williams' work: Esther Williams' pictures are refreshingly imaginative at a time when so many of our painters are absorbingly literal. Many of them betray frankly romantic overtones that create an air of engaging fantasy. Those who seek a message of a new order or theme fraught with "social-consciousness" will not find them here for these paintings are compounded of the elements that delight the senses and beguile the mind. Williams specialized in circus images and portraits, and, above all, paintings dealing with flowers and with music. Sources include: https://gustavus.edu/quarterly/focus/estherwilliams/page2.php Information provided by Professor Julia Williams Robinson, the artist's niece.
Ripley Auctions
Sep. 26, 2019
Esther Williams, still life painting
Est: $80 - $125
Esther Williams (American, 1907-1969), "Peony and Other Flowers", oil on canvas, signed "Esther Williams" at lower right, gallery label verso, 19.5"h x 17.5"w (sight), 24"h x 22.5"w (frame)
Millea Bros Ltd
Oct. 30, 2018
Esther Williams (American, 1907-1969), oil painting of a woman on a white horse performing in a circus, oil on canvas, signed lower ...
Est: $400 - $600
Esther Williams (American, 1907-1969), oil painting of a woman on a white horse performing in a circus, oil on canvas, signed lower center, measures 20" x 26", good condition with three small punctures and wear to edges
William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals
Feb. 23, 2016
Esther Williams (American, 1907-1969), oil on canvas, Still Life with Sheet Music, 10" x 8" canvas, 14-1/2" x 12-1/2" overall, parti...
Est: $400 - $600
Esther Williams (American, 1907-1969), oil on canvas, Still Life with Sheet Music, 10" x 8" canvas, 14-1/2" x 12-1/2" overall, partial gallery label on verso
William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals
Aug. 14, 2013
Esther Williams American, 1907-1969 Do Re Mi Fa
Est: $700 - $900
Esther Williams American, 1907-1969 Do Re Mi Fa Signed Esther Williams (ll) Oil on canvas 11 x 14 1/8 inches Provenance: Kraushaar Gallery, New York C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Jun. 19, 2013
Esther Williams American, 1907-1969 Do Re Mi Fa
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Esther Williams American, 1907-1969 Do Re Mi Fa Signed Esther Williams (ll) Oil on canvas 11 x 14 1/8 inches Provenance: Kraushaar Gallery, New York C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Oct. 15, 2012
ESTER MABEL BALDWIN WILLIAMS (American. 1867-1964)
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
"Three Girls in White with a Black Cat". Signed "Esther Baldwin" and dated 1897 u/l. Oil on Canvas. Measuring 45 1/2" by 31 1/2". Framed. (Cond: original canvas, has a patch, overall crazing, otherwise good)
Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches
Aug. 23, 2012
* Esther Baldwin Williams, (American, 1907-1969), Giovanna in Striped Blouse
Est: $400 - $600
Esther Baldwin Williams (American, 1907-1969) Giovanna in Striped Blouse oil on canvas signed Esther Williams (lower right) 40 x 30 1/2 inches.
Hindman
May. 02, 2012
*Esther Baldwin Williams, (American, 1907-1969), Nude with Flowers
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Esther Baldwin Williams (American, 1907-1969) Nude with Flowers oil on canvas signed Esther Williams (lower left) 40 1/2 x 29 inches.
Hindman
May. 02, 2012
*Esther Baldwin Williams, (American, 1907-1969), Giovanna in Striped Blouse
Est: $800 - $1,200
Esther Baldwin Williams (American, 1907-1969) Giovanna in Striped Blouse oil on canvas signed Esther Williams (lower right) 40 x 30 1/2 inches.
Hindman
Sep. 11, 2011
Esther Williams, (American, 1907-1969), Family in the Garden
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Esther Williams (American, 1907-1969) Family in the Garden oil on board signed Esther Williams (lower left) 26 x 22 inches.
Hindman
Aug. 25, 2011
*Esther Baldwin Williams, (American, 1907-1969), Spring in the Park
Est: $300 - $500
Esther Baldwin Williams (American, 1907-1969) Spring in the Park oil on canvas 15 x 20 1/2 inches.
Hindman
Jun. 09, 2011
*Esther Baldwin Williams, (American, 1907-1969), Spring in the Park
Est: $800 - $1,200
Esther Baldwin Williams (American, 1907-1969) Spring in the Park oil on canvas 15 x 20 1/2 inches.
Hindman
Feb. 10, 2008
ESTHER BALDWIN WILLIAMS (AMERICAN, 1907-1969)
Est: $600 - $900
Oil on canvas. Still life with vase of flowers. Signed lower right. 12 x 10." Hole upper right, scratches below.
Stamford Auction
Dec. 12, 2006
ESTHER WILLIAMS 1907-1969
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
BETHESDA FOUNTAIN, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK measurements 40 by 50 in. alternate measurements 101.7 by 127 cm. signed Esther Williams (lower left) oil on canvas Condition Note: generally good condition, canvas unlined, slightly rippled, surface moderately soiled, scattered minor craquelure, under UV light no apparent inpainting We are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described in our catalogue. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE. PROVENANCE Kraushaar Galleries, New York (as Fountain)
Sotheby's
Jun. 21, 2006
ESTHER WILLIAMS 1907-1969
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
BETHESDA FOUNTAIN, CENTRAL PARK measurements 40 by 50 in. alternate measurements 101.7 by 127 cm. signed Esther Williams, lower left oil on canvas Condition Note: generally good condition, canvas unlined, slightly rippled, surface moderately soiled, scattered minor craquelure, under UV light no apparent inpainting We are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described in our catalogue. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE. PROVENANCE Kraushaar Galleries, New York (as Fountain)
Sotheby's
Nov. 21, 2003
Esther Baldwin Williams (American, b. 1907)
Est: $700 - $900
A Floral Bouquet Signed "Esther Williams" l.r. Oil on canvas, 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.5 cm), framed. Condition: Good.
Skinner
Dec. 03, 2000
Esther B. Williams (American, b.1907), "Garden Walk", c.1945; oil/canvas, 34" x 26", signed. Boston
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
area painter. She studied at the Boston Museum School, and with Lhote, in Paris. She was a member of the Rockport Art Association, Copley Society, and the New York Art Club. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Worlds Fair New York (mostly in the 1930s-40s). Her work is in several important museum collections.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers