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EDWARD M. BANNISTER (1828 - 1901)
Landscape, Field andWoods
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Watercolor and pencil on thin wove paper, circa 1885. 102x178 mm; 4x7 inches. Initialed in pencil,
lower right.Titled in pencil on the mount, lower margin.
Provenance: private collection, NewYork; thence by descent to the current owner.
Exhibited:The Studio Museum in Harlem, NewYork, with the label on the frame back.
Landscape, Field andWoods
is a beautiful and fresh watercolor study, and a scarce example of a
plein air
sketch by this important Rhode Island landscape artist.This is only the third watercolor by the artist
to come to auction. Similar sketches in both pencil and watercolor are in the collection of the
Amistad Research Center,Tulane University, New Orleans.
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