Mar 31, 2022 - Sale 2599

Sale 2599 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
WILLIAM A. HARPER (1873 - 1910)
Untitled (Farm House).

Oil on thin wood panel, circa 1903-05. 117x193 mm; 4 5/8x7 5/8 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.

Provenance: estate of the artist; private collection, Decatur, IL (circa 1922), thence by descent, private collection, Virginia. The owner's great grandmother acquired this painting from the Harper family in Decatur. A number of oil paintings by William A. Harper were exhibited at the Decatur Art Institute in January of 1922. The painting is numbered 19 in pencil on the verso and has a number 19 label on the frame back.