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• EDWARD EVERETT HENRY (1893-1961)Cold
  EDWARD EVERETT HENRY (1893-1961)Cold Spring Camp, 1939 signed and dated "EVERETT HENRY N.Y.C. 1939" upper left oil on canvas, 40 by 60 in. inscribed "Cold Spring Camp and the Salmon Waters of George Washington Hill on the River Matapedia Quebec" lower center Born in Brooklyn in 1893 and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Henry studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, founded by William Merritt Chase, where he also taught after graduating. He joined the Army’s Camouflage Corps during World War I, served in France, and returned to develop a successful career as an artist and illustrator. His work appeared in “Saturday Evening Post” and “Collier’s,” among other magazines, and his drawing of the first College Football game between Princeton and Yale was reproduced by Currier & Ives in 1930. Also in the 1930s, Henry created murals for corporate clients like Ford and the Pennsylvania Railroad, and had a side business painting pictorial estate plans of private clients’ homes and property. On top of this vibrant career, Henry was known as a pictorial cartographer. He created exuberant, detailed, and beautiful maps, such as "The New Map of the World" in 1928 and a series of literary maps based on classic literature like “Tom Sawyer,” “Ivanhoe,” and “Moby Dick” in the 1950s. He lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, and Amagansett, New York, where he died in 1961. This detailed and stunning map of the Matapedia River in Quebec identifies named pools, like Jim's Rock Pool, Three Island Pool, and the Gulch Pool. It shows the Cold Spring Camp’s location on the bend near Clark’s Brook, and identifies the shoreline by owner, including the Restigouche Salmon Club at the mouth of the river. It also shows the train tracks that connect Montreal to the village of Matapedia. This historic overnight train would leave in the evening, allowing salmon anglers to wake up and go fishing early the next morning. The painted map is peppered with fish species, deer, porcupine, moose, quail, duck, and rabbit typical of the area, with salmon flies at the lower right and a faux-birch scroll cartouche at lower center. Provenance: Private Collection, Connecticut
• ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)Autumn
  ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)Autumn Woodcock Shooting, 1895 signed "A.B. Frost" lower right watercolor and gouache, 13 1/2 by 21 1/2 in. titled on The Old Print Shop, New York label on back Charles Porter Schutt, known to friends and family as Porter, was an avid sportsman with a keen appreciation for sporting art. Born in 1911 in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1935, he married Phyllis Moxham du Pont, daughter of Eugene E. du Pont. Under her father’s champion tutelage, she became an accomplished shot at an early age. Together, Porter and Phyllis shared a profound love of the outdoors, respect for nature, and enjoyment of the sport of shooting. They spent countless days hunting quail, woodcock, dove, duck, and wild turkey at her parents’ two expansive sporting properties, Kinloch Plantation, on the Santee River outside Charleston, South Carolina, and Napley Green, on the Chester River near Rock Hall, Maryland. In addition to attending and hosting organized shooting parties on the East Coast, the couple regularly traveled to Scotland and Spain to enjoy “walked up” days flushing out partridge, pheasant, and woodcock with other experienced guns. In the late 1960s, the Schutts purchased a large tract of land in Alabama where they envisioned a shooting plantation of their own. “Gallio,” the result, is a pristine forested property, shaped over forty years into a shooting paradise, and designed to provide and protect a perfect natural habitat for game birds. Though the walls at Gallio and at Dogwood, in Wilmington, were covered with Audubons and Frosts, “Autumn Woodcock” had a place of pride in Porter’s library above his desk as his favorite and most prized work of art. It was the perfect painting to appreciate while sitting, nursing a scotch, and planning the next shooting party or yearly trip to Scotland. To Porter and Phyllis, Frost’s incredible eye for detail and ability to capture the spirit of the moment trumped all others. Porter Schutt died in 1999, and “Autumn Woodcock” descended in the family until being offered today. A. B. Frost was born in Philadelphia in 1851, but spent his most prolific years in New Jersey. Considered one of the great illustrators of the “Golden Age of American Illustration,” he illustrated more than ninety books and produced thousands of illustrations for “Harper’s Weekly,” “Scribner’s,” and “Life” magazines. Frost’s illustrative work chronicles the mood and details of the daily life of farmers, hunters, and fishermen, as well as barnyards and pastoral motifs. By 1876, he was on Harper’s staff working on many books including “Tom Sawyer,” “Uncle Remus,” and “Mr. Dooley.” He also illustrated Theodore Roosevelt’s sporting book, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman." Frost was an ardent sportsman who spent his summers and autumns fishing, rowing, and hunting ducks and snipe. He is best known for his hunting and shooting prints which capture the drama of sport in realistic, detailed settings. Frost lived much of his life at his estate, Moneysunk, in Convent Station, New Jersey. This work, “Autumn Woodcock,” is the original watercolor reproduced by Charles Scribner’s Sons in Frost’s "Shooting Pictures," a portfolio of twelve chromolithograph prints. It is considered one of the artist's most iconic and recognized works. Of the thousands of works that Frost is known to have produced, "Autumn Woodcock," with its excellent composition and superb condition, ranks right at the top. The work reveals Frost as one of the greatest illustrators of his generation. The hunter is perfectly positioned as the setters come across the woodcock by a brook, a Frost masterwork in every sense. As Henry M. Reed notes, “Every scene portrayed is one that each of us who has hunted with dog and gun has experienced - the setter staunchly on point, the gun ready, thumb on the safety, and heart pounding as we await the explosive fluttering of wings as the bird flushes...all of these are situations which the artist handles with such realism and familiarity that the viewer is placed squarely in the center of the adventure...The pointing dogs are magnificent - sneaky, noses moist and low, and their weightless balance, with forefoot raised, is perfection. The landscape backgrounds for the shooting pictures signify autumn, with grey morning mist behind the birches, the fallen leaves wet with morning dew...” Provenance: Charles Porter Schutt Collection, acquired from The Old Print Shop, New York Sarah S. Harrison Collection, by descent Renee du Pont Harrison Collection, by descent Literature: Henry M. Reed, "The A. B. Frost Book," Charleston, SC, 1993, p. 87, illustrated. Henry M. Reed, "The A. B. Frost Book," Rutland, VT, 1967, illustrated. Henry W. Lanier, "A. B. Frost The American Sportsman's Artist," New York, 1933, illustrated.
• ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)"With
  ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)"With One Final Puff He Rolled Into the Trench," 1917 estate stamp "A B Frost" lower right ink wash, 17 1/2 by 12 1/2 in. Arthur B. Frost was born in Philadelphia in 1851, but spent his most prolific years in New Jersey. Considered one of the great illustrators of the Golden Age of American Illustration, he illustrated more than ninety books and produced thousands of illustrations for “Harper’s Weekly,” “Scribner’s,” and “Life” magazines. Frost’s illustrative work chronicles the mood and details of the daily life of farmers, hunters, and fishermen, as well as barnyards and pastoral motifs. By 1876, he was on Harper’s staff working on many books, including “Tom Sawyer,” “Uncle Remus,” and “Mr. Dooley.” He also illustrated Theodore Roosevelt’s sporting book, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman." Frost was an ardent sportsman who spent his summers and autumns fishing, rowing, and hunting ducks and snipe. He completed hundreds of watercolors and oils of the New Jersey seaside. Frost is best known for his hunting and shooting prints which capture the drama of sport in realistic, detailed settings. Frost lived at his estate, Moneysunk, in Convent Station, New Jersey. A.B. Frost created this drawing as an illustration for the story "Wamble: His Day Out," which appeared in "Collier's Weekly" in 1917. Provenance: The Estate of the Artist Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Sale 3834, item 405, January 29, 1976 The Estate of Ann Dickinson Dale Literature: Samuel Hopkins Adams, "Wamble: His Day Out," Collier's Weekly, January 13, 1917, pp. 16-18, illustrated.
• SET OF 2 SMALL ROYAL DOULTON MARK TWAIN
  SET OF 2 SMALL ROYAL DOULTON MARK TWAIN CHARACTER JUGSIncludes Huckleberry Finn D7177 and Tom Sawyer D7187. Literary characters. International Collector's Club series. Artist: Shane Ridge Issued: Early 21st c. Dimensions: 4.5"H, tallest Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Faint wear markings
• [Fine Press Illustrations] Seven titles
  [Fine Press Illustrations] Seven titles relating to Africa and African-Americans including: four titles from the Limited Editions Club each signed by illustrator with slipcase: Mark Twain; \'\'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer \'\' illus. by Thomas Hart Benton (Cambridge: 1939) #800/1500 8vo denim slipcase; Joseph Conrad; \'\'The Nigger of the Narcissus \'\' illus. by Millard Sheets (NY: 1965) #1350/1500 4to quarter leather pictorial cloth; Harriet Beecher Stowe; \'\'Uncle Tom\'s Cabin \'\' illus. by Miguel Covarrubias (NY: 1938) #1446/1500 half leather marbled boards; Joseph Conrad; \'\'Heart of Darkness \'\' illus. by Robert Shore (NY: 1969) #200/1500 quarter vellum printed boards; H.H. Swift; \'\'North Star Shining \'\' illus. by Lynn Ward (NY: Morrow 1947) 4to cloth d.j.; Joel Chandler Harris; \'\'Uncle Remus \'\' illus. by Fritz Eichenberg (Mt. Vernon NY: Peter Pauper 1937) ed. of 1 100 copies 4to cloth printed paper boards; W.H. Hudson; \'\'Green Mansions \'\' illus. by J. Day Martelly (Mt. Vernon NY: Peter Pauper Press n.d.) cloth printed paper boards slipcase Estimate $ 150-250 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - slipcase broken.
• MARK TWAIN D6758 - MINI - ROYAL DOULTON
  MARK TWAIN D6758 - MINI - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER JUGRoyal Doulton Character Jug, Mark Twain D6758 (black coat and bow tie; grey hair). Designed by Eric Griffiths, issued 1986 - 1990. Size: 2.5"H (mini)Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain was an American writer and humorist. He was best loved for his classic adventure stories, "Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), which told of life in his native Mississippi. The small jug modeled for "The Queen's Table," Royal Doulton's exhibit at the United Kingdom Showcase at Walt Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. The jug was sold exclusively to Epcot tourists visiting the exhibition during 1982. Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England
• TOM SAWYER HN2926 - ROYAL DOULTON FIGURINEBlue
  TOM SAWYER HN2926 - ROYAL DOULTON FIGURINEBlue coloration. Series: Characters from Children's Literature. Royal Doulton backstamp. Artist: David Lyttleton Issued: 1982 - 1985 Dimensions: 5.25"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good.
• TOM SAWYER D7187 - SMALL - ROYAL DOULTON
  TOM SAWYER D7187 - SMALL - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER JUGBlack overalls, blue hat, brown hair. Series: ICC. Royal Doulton and ICC backstamp. Includes certificate of authenticity. Artist: Shane Ridge Issued: 2003 - 2003 Dimensions: 4.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
• MARK TWAIN D6694 - SMALL - ROYAL DOULTON
  MARK TWAIN D6694 - SMALL - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER JUGBlack coat and bow tie; grey hair. Mark Twain was best loved for his classic adventure stories, "Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), which told of life in his native Mississippi. The small jug modeled for "The Queen's Table," Royal Doulton's exhibit at the United Kingdom Showcase at Walt Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. The jug was sold exclusively to Epcot tourists visiting the exhibition during 1982. Royal Doulton backstamp. Artist: Eric Griffiths Issued: 1983 - 1990 Dimensions: 4"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Age related wear.
• TOM SAWYER HN2926 - ROYAL DOULTON FIGURINEChildren's
  TOM SAWYER HN2926 - ROYAL DOULTON FIGURINEChildren's Literature Series. Royal Doulton backstamp. Artist: David Lyttleton Issued: 1982 - 1985 Dimensions: 5.25"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Age related wear.
• AMERICAN GENRE PAINTING, BOYS SMOKINGAttributed
  AMERICAN GENRE PAINTING, BOYS SMOKINGAttributed to Fred Gohman (American School, early to mid 20th century), genre painting depicting two boys sitting barefoot in a wooded landscape and smoking, reminiscent of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Pencil inscription en verso "Fred Gohman." 16" x 19" canvas, 17 1/2" x 20 1/2" framed. Note: Fred Gohman was a mid 20th century illustration artist. He worked for the Cincinnati Enquirer. This may be from his book "Mystery at Indian Island." (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com) Condition: Very good condition with general overall craquelure.
• TWAIN- THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERTwain,
  TWAIN- THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERTwain, Mark, ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'', The text edited and with an Introduction by Bernard DeVoto; with a prologue ''Boys Manuscript'', printed for the first time; illustrated with drawings by Thomas Hart Benton; Cambridge, printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1939, Number 64 of 1,500 copies, signed by [Thomas Hart] Benton, 340 pgs. hard bound, covered in blue cloth, with paper label on spine, generally good condition.