Press Release
Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will present their annual Fall Fine Art Auction on Thursday, October 24th, at 6 pm Eastern time. The sale will take place live online at shannons.com, with bidding also available by telephone and absentee.
Shannon’s has become the leading auction house for American art and this season proves their strength in attracting quality consignments in this genre. The firm secured 15 paintings from a major private collection of American art. Many of the paintings from this group are fresh-to-the-market, having been in private hands for decades.
The top lot from this collection is an exceptional Alfred Thompson Bricher, titled Morning at Narragansett – The Turn of the Tide (1871), estimated at $150,000-$200,000. This masterful, Luminist painting depicts a mother with her two children enjoying a day at the beach, young boys playing in the gentle waves, and a couple walking in the sand. Shannon’s has sold over 100 paintings by A.T. Bricher and company owner Sandra Germain said this is “easily among the best work by Bricher I have ever seen.”
19th century American paintings are a strength of this collection. In addition to the Bricher, Shannon’s will offer a Thomas W. Whittredge, titled View of Newport Beach at $50,000-$75,000; Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Greenwood Lake, at $50,000-75,000; and still-life paintings by Levi Wells Prentice and John F. Francis.
American Impressionism is led by an Ernest Lawson work titled Boat House, Winter, Harlem River from 1918, estimated at $100,000-$150,000. It was previously in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum and in private hands since 2010. Other fine examples of American Impressionism include paintings of New York City by Colin Campbell Cooper and Edmund Greacen.
The fall auction at Shannon’s will feature 183 lots of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture. To join the mailing list and for updates on the October 24, 2024 Fine Art Auction visit www.shannons.com, or follow them on social media. Shannon’s can be reached by phone at 203-877-1711; or via email at [email protected].
