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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FORT WORTH, TEXAS
Lot 47

Theodore Earl Butler
(1861-1936)
New York Harbor 31 1/2 x 44 in. (80 x 111.8 cm.)

18 November 2021, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$31,562.50 inc. premium

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Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936)

New York Harbor
signed and dated 'T.E. Butler 1917' (lower left)
oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 44 in. (80 x 111.8 cm.)
Painted in 1917.

Footnotes

Provenance
R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Private collection, Arlington, Virginia, acquired from the above.
Sale, Bonhams, New York, May 22, 2013, lot 57, sold by the above.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited
New York, The Society of Independent Artists, Second Annual Exhibition, April 20-May 12, 1918, n.p., no. 117.

Literature
"Art and Artists Pass in Review; Annual Exhibition of Independents-Millets for Boston-Notable Auction Sales in New York," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 1918, vol. 178, no. 118, p. 10.
R.H. Love, Theodore Earl Butler: Emergence from Monet's Shadow, Chicago, 1985, pp. 385, 387.

This painting will be included in Patrick Bertrand's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of Theodore Earl Butler.

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