Dec 14, 2017 - Sale 2465

Sale 2465 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
NELLY LITTLEHALE MURPHY.
"The Wind Gatherers." Illustration published in "Our Wonder World: A Library of Knowledge. Volume IX: The Mother's Homebook" (Chicago & Boston: G.L. Shuman & Co., 1914). Watercolor on board. 267x253 mm; 10 1/2x10 inches, on 15x15-inch board, framed to 23 1/2x18 1/2 inches. Signed with monogram in lower left image. Attached to verso of the frame board is a clipped signature bearing the artist's former married surname, Umbstaetter, an earlier title for the piece, a tear sheet from the published work, and the H. Dudley Murphy Estate stamp. Tipped to matte and framed.