Collectors’ Choice: 20th/21st Century Art

September 2530, 2021
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LOT 115

Lot 115

Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)

Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)
Lot 115 Details
Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933), American

GROVE OF TREES

Oil on canvas; signed lower right
34.25 ins x 30 ins; 87 cms x 76.2 cms

Estimate $1,000-$1,500

Realised: $600
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)
  • Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)
  • Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)
  • Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)
  • Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)
Provenance:

With the label of Westchester Arts and Crafts Guild to the stretcher verso;
Private Collection, Nova Scotia

Note:

At one time Alta West Salisbury was considered one of America's leading landscape and still life painters. Born in Darnestown, Maryland, she studied at the Corcoran School of Art under Cullen Yates and Leon Dabo in New York, and at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Art in France.

Salisbury was a founding member of the New Rochelle Art Association in 1920 and was also a noted art educator and lecturer.

CONDITION DETAILS

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