Image Lot Price Description

2154
$1,725.00

EARL CUNNINGHAM (American, 1893-1977)”MOCK UP NO 2 1950″. Oil on paper laid on corrugated cardboard scene shows two long red-roofed covered bridges spanning between the coast and two islands. The left land having nine large tropical flowering trees with two paths and one walking figure. The middle island having a grove of brown trees and the larger island having four houses, four large trees and one fallen tree. The fallen tree has two red platypus-type birds while two of the other trees support white birds. Four white-sailed schooners are seen on the horizon and one appears in foreground to be in dry dock. The sky is gold and brown and the water tints from aqua to brown. Signed center bottom, “By Earl Cunningham, 1950”. Housed in a modern black shadow-box type frame with glass front and Lucite back with shows the title in pencil and “By Earl Cunningham”. SIZE: (sight) 15-1/4″h x 34-3/4″w. PROVENANCE: Recently found in a New England home. CONDITION: The edges have small bites and tears. The bottom edge the worst with several losses to the edge. 9-93106 (6,000-10,000)


Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - Samoset 2008
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