Freeman’s December 8th American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists Auction has numerous excellent consignments from private collections all over the country. Paintings from the Robert G. Luckie estate bring the old west from Tucson to Philadelphia. The collection features a notable oil on canvas by William Acheff and seven paintings by celebrated artist Kenneth Riley. The American Art section features paintings by Jessie Willcox Smith, famed illustrator of domestic scenes, the Southampton shoreline after a storm by Fairfield Porter and a still life by Lemuel Everett Wilmarth, a painter who rarely arrives at auction. Additional works include excellent portraits by William Merritt Chase and John Singer Sargent, drawings by Joseph Stella and Edward Hopper and striking oil paintings by Thomas Hill, Everett Shinn, Elizabeth Nourse, Milton Avery, Stephen Scott Young, Enoch Bolles and Arthur Beecher Carles.
The Pennsylvania Impressionist’s are headlined by “Winter Harmony” from luminary E
