Dec 16, 2021 - Sale 2592

Sale 2592 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
GUSTAVUS CHAFEE WIDNEY (1871-1955)
"Strife and bitterness and defeat - they are gone in the breath of the wind, the croon of the surf, the drift of light and shadow on the dreamy isle across the bay." Story illustration for "The Serpent and Mr. Hendry's Heavens: The Call of the Brown Woman and a Plodder's Revolt Against Tradition" by Stanley R. Osborn, published in Collier's, September 23, 1911, page 22, with their label on verso. Pen, ink, and wash on board. 170x450 mm; 6 3/4x17 1/2 inches. Signed "Widney" and dated [19]11 in lower right image. Float mounted and hinged through backing board; matted.