Sale 2456 - African-American Fine Art, October 5, 2017

A detailed authentication report, dated April 29, 2017, by art historian Anne Louise Avery, who is currently working on the first catalogue raisonné of Edward Bannister’s work, will accompany the sale of this unsigned painting. Ms. Avery notes how this canvas has distinctive and characteristic elements - including the clustering of figures and the red parasol device - found in Bannister paintings, including his Bath Road Cliff, Newport , 1889, and Fort Dumpling, Jamestown, Rhode Island , circa late 1880s. [20,000/30,000]