Top Lots: Winslow Homer, Preston Dickinson & James D. Smillie The first of its kind at Swann to break $1 Million, the American Art auction on Thursday was our highest-grossing sale in this category ever, with a sale total of $1,020,970, thanks to a recently rediscovered sketch by Winslow Homer. Winslow Homer’s Study: Fresh Air, set a new record for a pen and ink drawing by the artist on June 12, 2014 at $106,250. There was spirited bidding across the board, for works from nineteenth-century artists to mid-century modernists. Particularly notable were Winslow Homer’s Study: Fresh Air, a recent discovery which—having previously been listed in the Homer catalogue raisonné as “whereabouts unknown”—had descended through the family of the artist James D. Smillie. It was a study for Homer’s seminal, same-titled watercolor Fresh Air, which is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Preston Dickinson’s The Peters Mills brought a record price of $60,000 on June 12, 2014. Other note-worthy records were set for Preston Dickinson’s The Peters Mills, a 1924 brush, ink, wash and color pastel with pencil that sold for $60,000 and James D. Smillie’s Sunset Over a Lake, which brought in $11,875. James D. Smillie’s Sunset Over a Lake set a record in the June 12, 2014 auction when it sold for $11,875. Share Facebook Twitter June 14, 2014Author: Swann CommunicationsCategory: American Art Tags: American Art American drawings american paintings auction records James D. Smillie Preston Dickinson Swann Galleries Todd Weyman Winslow Homer Previous Barkley L. Hendricks in Conversation with Nigel Freeman at Swann Next Celebrating Bloomsday 2014 Recommended Posts Synchromism: Modern Art Conceived by American Artists Modern & Post-War Art May 14, 2021 Fall 2020 American Art Sale Delivers 15 New Records American Art September 22, 2020 Herman Melville: Neighbor 19th & 20th Century Literature November 20, 2013