- A STERLING SILVER FOX HEAD PAGE TURNER
A STERLING SILVER FOX HEAD PAGE TURNER Mark of Lebkuecher & Co., pattern number 623-20, featuring a molded fox head and engraved "FOXCROFT" below.
- JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE (MASSACHUSETTS/CALIFORNIA/MAINE,
JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE (MASSACHUSETTS/CALIFORNIA/MAINE, 1837-1892), PORTRAIT OF A DONKEY., OIL ON BOARD, 12" X 16". FRAMED 18" X 22".JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE, Massachusetts/California/Maine, 1837-1892, Portrait of a donkey. Signed lower right "J. Foxcroft Cole". Dimensions: Oil on board, 12" x 16". Framed 18" x 22".
- AFTER JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE (AMERICAN,
AFTER JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE (AMERICAN, 1837 - 1892), "NE...After Joseph Foxcroft Cole (American, 1837 - 1892), "New Bedford, Mass.", circa 1858, lithograph with hand coloring on paper, inscribed in plate along the lower margin, image size 16 x 32 inches.
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- (VIEW) MAINE - COVERING "C" THROUGH
(VIEW) MAINE - COVERING "C" THROUGH "E" TOWNS: 59 POSTCARDS EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY(VIEW) MAINE - COVERING "C" THROUGH "E" TOWNS: 59 POSTCARDS, Early to Mid-20th Century, Real photo: two early East Corinth street scenes, School St. (Corinna), baseball team wearing "UBC" monogrammed shirts, Christmas Cove, Castine, "Bailey's Willow Beach Camps" (China), Casco, Cape Porpoise, Union Square (Dover-Foxcroft), Berst-Foster Dixfield Toothpick Co. (Dixfield), Dixfield street scene, Water St. (Eastport), Lincoln cabins (No. Edgecomb) and more. Early: Monty's Lobster Pound with Esso pumps, Calais Ave. (Calais), E. Corinth "Watering Room" with trolley, wreck of the steamer "Bay State" on high head (Cape Elizabeth), "Damariscotta River Steamboat Co.'s fleet" and more. Provenance: The Estate of Hilary Bamford.
- FIVE INDIVIDUALLY BOUND 18TH CENTURY
FIVE INDIVIDUALLY BOUND 18TH CENTURY SERMONS FROM BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS All 12mo (7 1/8 in. tallest), as follows: Foxcroft, Thomas. The Divine Right of Deacons: A Sermon Preach'd On the Occasion of the Ordination of Mr. Zechariah Thayer (1731); Prince, Thomas. The Salvations of God in 1746. In Part set forth in a Sermon At the South Church in Boston, Nov. 27th, 1746. Being the Day of the Anniversary Thanksgiving In the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in N.E. (1746); Condy, Jeremiah. A Sermon Preach'd at Boston, On the Death of Mr. Benjamin Landon / Merchant: Who Deceased January 8, 1747. In the 53d Year of his Age (1747); Gay, Ebenezer. A beloved Disciple of Jesus Christ characterized, In a Sermon Preached at the West-Church in Boston, July 27 A.M. 1766, The third Lord's-Day from the Decease of the Reverend Paator Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. (1766); Clarke, John. A Sermon Delivered at the Church in Brattle-Street, January 2, 1784 at the Interment of the Rev. Samuel Cooper, D.D. Who Expired, December 29, 1783. (1784).
- BALTIMORE REPOUSSé STERLING SILVER
BALTIMORE REPOUSSé STERLING SILVER RULER/LETTER OPENER Mark of S. Kirk & Son, pattern number 4, 12 inch ruler with engraved "Foxcroft" figural logo to verso center.
- ESTHER WILLIAMS, NEW YORK, MASSACHUSETTS,
ESTHER WILLIAMS, NEW YORK, MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA (1907 - 1969), ABOVE PARIS, LITHOGRAPH, 10 1/2"H X 12 1/2"W (SIGHT), 12 1/2"H X 17 1/2"W (MAT)Esther Williams, New York, Massachusetts, Iowa, (1907 - 1969) Above Paris, lithograph Numbered 24/30 and titled lower left. Signed lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: She was from a Boston family that included numerous painters, among them her mother, Esther Baldwin Williams (1867-1964), with whom she has at times been confused, her mother's cousin Adelaide Cole Chase (1868-1944), and Chase's father, Joseph Foxcroft Cole (1837-1892), who taught art to his daughter and niece. Cole was a prominent proponent in America of the Barbizon landscape school of painting, having studied in France with Charles-Émile Jacque (1813-1894), and he was a co-founder of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Williams enrolled at the Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston, in September 1925. There she studied with Philip L. Hale (1865-1931), who had been a student of American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) at the Art Students League in New York. In 1927, after having already begun showing her work in national exhibitions, Williams accompanied her older brother Tom, recently graduated from Harvard University's architecture school, on a "grand tour" of Europe that lasted a year and a half. They and two friends traveled around the continent in a rented car, and they were joined for a time by their parents in London and Paris. While abroad, Williams the younger studied, in 1928, with André Lhote (1885-1962), a painter who was very influential as a lecturer, author, and teacher and who had founded his own art school in Montparnasse, Paris in 1922. Williams' experience was thus similar to her mother's some fifty years earlier, when Baldwin Williams followed her cousin Adelaide and her uncle J. Foxcroft Cole to Paris for art studies. Following her return from Europe, Williams moved to New York by 1934 and entered the next stage of her career. She began to gain widespread recognition, and it was evidently around this time that she enrolled at the Art Students League of New York, whose liberal policies encouraged even brief and casual study there. In 1935, Williams was awarded the Lambert Purchase Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts—where she exhibited regularly from 1927 into the 1950s—for her Circus Horses, a painting of animals backstage in a circus tent. Also in 1935, she was awarded the Worcester (Massachusetts) Art Museum's Second Purchase Prize in their Biennial Exhibition, for her Between the Acts, Downie's Circus. And in 1938, another circus image, Waiting for the Cue, was awarded the Norman Harris Bronze Medal and was purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago during its Annual Exhibition of American Painting. Other museums also acquired Williams' paintings, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which bought her Handel Concerto, one of her many works with music or musicians as their subject. Among other honors the artist received was the $1000 award given in 1944 by The American Academy of Arts and Letters in recognition of Williams' "warm sensitive vision of life expressed through the medium of painting." These awards had the purpose of recognizing artists producing distinguished work in fields that offered little in the way of financial reward, to paraphrase the announcement that appeared in the New York Times on April 27, 1944. Earlier, in 1936, Williams had been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum. Perry Cott, Curator at Worcester and later Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., described Williams' work: Esther Williams' pictures are refreshingly imaginative at a time when so many of our painters are absorbingly literal. Many of them betray frankly romantic overtones that create an air of engaging fantasy. Those who seek a message of a new order or theme fraught with "social-consciousness" will not find them here for these paintings are compounded of the elements that delight the senses and beguile the mind. Williams specialized in circus images and portraits, and, above all, paintings dealing with flowers and with music. Sources include: https://gustavus.edu/quarterly/focus/estherwilliams/page2.php Information provided by Professor Julia Williams Robinson, the artist's niece. lithograph Dimensions: 10 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W (sight), 12 1/2"H x 17 1/2"W (mat)
- JAMES FOXCROFT COLE (AMERICAN 1837-1892),
JAMES FOXCROFT COLE (AMERICAN 1837-1892), COWS GRAZING, WATERCOLOR FRAME: 13 X 16-1/2 INJames Foxcroft Cole (American 1837-1892), Cows Grazing, Watercolor, Dimensions: Frame: 13 x 16-1/2 in
- GEORGE ALLEN "SLIM" AARONS (AMERICAN/NEW
GEORGE ALLEN "SLIM" AARONS (AMERICAN/NEW YORK)George Allen "Slim" Aarons (American/New York, 1916-2006) , "The Girls of Foxcroft School Waiting at the Stables for Their Horses", c. 1960, c-print on Kodak paper, signed lower right, sheet 16 in. x 20 in., framed
- ELIZABETH BORGLUM, "EVENING STORM" O/C
ELIZABETH BORGLUM, "EVENING STORM" O/C LANDSCAPE Elizabeth Janes Putnam Borglum (American 1848-1922), "Edge of the Mountains" or "Evening Storm" or "Sunset, Sycamore Mountains", late 19th/early 20th century, oil on canvas depicting a dark landscape with a mountain in the distance, signed at lower right, gallery tag from Maxwell Galleries Fine Paintings located en verso, framed. Provenance: Private Collection, Clarendon, TX; acquired at Coeur d'Alene Galleries March in Montana Auction, 2019; Maxwell Galleries Fine Paintings, San Francisco, CA. Note: Elizabeth Borglum was married to Gutzon Borglum, best known for his stone portrait carvings on Mount Rushmore, from 1889-1908. Elizabeth studied with Emil Carlsen, Felix Hidalgo, and J. Foxcroft Cole. Approx. h. 16", w. 20"; overall h. 23", w. 26.75", d. 1.5".
- JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE (MASSACHUSETTS/CALIFORNIA/MAINE,
JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE (MASSACHUSETTS/CALIFORNIA/MAINE, 1837-1892), NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE., WATERCOLOR, 6.5" X 9" SIGHT. FRAMED 16.5" X 21".JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE, Massachusetts/California/Maine, 1837-1892, New England landscape. Signed lower left "J. Foxcroft Cole". Dimensions: Watercolor, 6.5" x 9" sight. Framed 16.5" x 21".
- EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS, ETC., INCLUDING
EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS, ETC., INCLUDING THE SCRIPTURE-BISHOP VINDICATED. 1733EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS, ETC., INCLUDING THE SCRIPTURE-BISHOP VINDICATED. 1733, [American Imprints] 12 volumes, 12 titles: Eleutherius [pseudonym of Jonathan Dickinson]. The Scripture Bishop Vindicated: A Defence of the Dialogue Between Praelaticus and Eleutherius ... Bound with: Phileluth Bangor, V.E.B. [pseudonym of Thomas Foxcroft]. Eusebius inermatus: Just remarks on a late book intitled Eleutherius Enervatus, or an Answer to a Pamphlet, Intituled, The Divine Right of Presbyterian Ordination ... Boston: Printed for D. Henchman, 1733. 16mo. First edition, with half-title. 125: 158 pp. Plain embossed leather. With scarce Nathaniel Hurd bookplate of Harvard University with inscription 'The Gift of Jonathan Jackson/Newbury/1764-66,' and signed in ink on title page; Espinasse, Isaac. A Digest of the Law of Actions and Trials at Nisi Prius. Walpole, New Hampshire: Printed for Thomas and Thomas, by David Carlisle. 1801. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. xlviii, 1-426: 427-871. Contemporary brown leather binding, spines with 5 raised bands; Whitby, Daniel. Six Discourses ... Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas. 1801. 8vo. xvi, 17-412. Contemporary brown leather binding; Stiles, Ezra. President of Yale College. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull ... Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas. [1785]. 12mo. 172 pp. followed by advertisements. Contemporary leather binding, placed in is a 1918 single page letter from Warren C. Crane, prominent NY books and manuscripts collector, referring to the book as a gift; Goethe. Sorrows of Werter. Boston: Andrews and Cummings. 1807. 16mo. 319 pp. Contemporary leather binding; A Series of Letters Between the Rev. Joseph Buckminster ... Windsor: James G. Watts. 1811. 16mo. Contemporary brown leather binding. Harvard College Library bookplate; Hill, J. The Young Secretary's Guide: Or a Speedy Help to Learning. Boston: Thomas Fleet. 1750. 16mo. Contemporary brown leather binding; Pike, Nicolas. A New And Complete System of Arithmetic ... Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas. 1797. 8vo. 516 pp. Contemporary brown leather binding. Harvard College Library stamp and bookplate; Ferguson, James. Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles ... Philadelphia: Matthew Carey. 1809. 8vo. 533 pp. Index. Contemporary brown leather binding. Ownership inscription of Hiram Howard, Cincinnati, 1831; Choice Tales ... Philadelphia: Joseph Charles. 1800. 170 pp. plus Contents. 32mo. Modern binding; Eliot, Jared. The Two Witnesses; or Religion Supported by Reason and Divine Revelation ... London: T. Green. 1736. 32mo. 79 pp., Title page and pages 1 and 2 replaced by modern copies. Modern binding (12)