Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932)
The Leaning Tree, ca. 1919
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Oil on canvas
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30 1/8 x 40 1/8 inches
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Signed lower right: W.L. PALMER
Provenance
- The artist
- Carll Tucker, New York, acquired from above, 1919
- Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, New York, New York, ca. 1997
- Richard Manoogian, Taylor, Michigan, acquired from above, ca. 1997
- Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, New York, New York
- Private collection, Pennsylvania, acquired from above, 2015
- [With] Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, from above
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox, acquired from above
Exhibited
94th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York, March 22–April 27, 1919, no. 50
Literature
“Late Academy Sales,” American Art News 17 (April 26, 1919): 1.
Maybelle Mann, Walter Launt Palmer: Poetic Reality (Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Limited, 1984), 145, no. 756.
Important American Paintings, Volume XVII: Enduring (New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2016), pl. 27.
Note
The Leaning Tree was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1919. That same year Silent Dawn, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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