Oct 07, 2010 - Sale 2224

Sale 2224 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DOX THRASH (1893 - 1965)
Untitled (Columbia Railroad Bridge, over the Schuylkill River).

Oil on canvas board, circa 1930-40. 254x356 mm; 10x14 inches.

Provenance: the artist; Edna Thrash, the artist's wife; Samuel and Sally Nowak, Philadelphia; Allan H. Nowak, Sunny Isles Beach, FL.

Within this atmospheric landscape, Thrash depicts the viewer as a spectator, an African-American man, watching the steaming locomotive passing over this stone Philadelphia railroad bridge. Thrash did a number of etching and carborundum studies of scenes along the Schuylkill River, including railroad bridges, through the 1930s.