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Lot 220: RACKSTRAW DOWNES Am. b. 1939

Est: $2,500 USD - $3,500 USDSold:
Barridoff GalleriesPortland, ME, USAugust 05, 2005

Item Overview

Description

RACKSTRAW DOWNES Am. b. 1939 Sproul Bros. Lumber Yard, Searsmont, Maine Signed "R.D." l.r. Pencil 11 1/2 × 41 1/2 in. sight (29.2 × 105.4 cm sight)

Dimensions

11 1/2 × 41 1/2 in. sight (29.2 × 105.4 cm sight)

Artist or Maker

Medium

Pencil

Exhibited

Exhibited A Heritage Renewed...Representative Drawing Today, 1976, page 52, illustration #20, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California, March 1-April 17, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 26 -August 7, 1983; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, August 21-October 9, 1983; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 5-December 18, 2003

Literature

Literature Rackstraw Downes by Sanford Schwartz, Richard Storrs, and Rackstraw Downes, the oil for which the current lot is a study, illustrated in color, p. 69 The oil is in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC..

Auction Details

August 5, 2005 Auction

by
Barridoff Galleries
August 05, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

P.O. Box 9715, Portland, ME, 04104-5015, US