Image Lot Price Description

1712
$862.00

LOT OF FOUR FRAMED ARTIST INSCRIBED LYNN BOGUE HUNT PRINTS. These four prints are from the popular Hunt series copyrighted in 1944 for Field and Stream magazine. Three of the prints are of a variety of ducks and geese and the fourth is of dove and quail. All four are identically artist inscribed “To M. Hartley Dodge from Lynn Bogue Hunt and Zeli….. Warner”. Marcellus Hartley Dodge was the President of Remington Arms Company at age 22. Mr. Dodge was born into wealth and American royalty as the son of Norman Dodge, an heir to the Hartley fortune. In 1907 he married Ethel Rockefeller, the niece of John D. Rockefeller, and at the time of the marriage they were worth an estimated $161 million. He was also the Director of a life insurance company, a railroad, Union Metallic Cartridge Company and President of the Bridgeport Gun Implement Co. and the M. Hartley Co. Lynn Bogue Hunt (1878-1960) was one of the world’s most famous wildlife artist who painted innumerable scenes of people, animals and wildlife, but is best known for his bird paintings. Hunt and Dodge were reported to have been friends or, at least, working acquaintances. CONDITION: All the prints are yellowed and slightly faded, frames are fine. 4-53361, 4-53362, 4-53363, 4-53364 JR939 (1,000-1,500)


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2004
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