Nov 01, 2001 - Sale 1912

Sale 1912 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HOMER, WINSLOW. Autograph Letter Signed, to collector Thomas B. Clarke, thanking him for his congratulations on winning a medal for his painting "The Wreck" at an exhibition at the Carnegie Institute and commenting that he may still "be of value to American Art." 1 1/2 pages, single 8vo sheet; a bit toned.<\t>Scarboro, 9 December 1896

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"I thank you for your very kind note of congratulation on my success. It is certainly a most tremendous & unprecedented honor & distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American Art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement."<