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Lot 192

Oliver Phelps Smith
(American, 1867-1953)
'Order Commands Disorder' - The Brooklyn Trolley Strike, 1895

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Oliver Phelps Smith (American, 1867-1953)

'Order Commands Disorder' - The Brooklyn Trolley Strike, 1895
signed and dated 'OLIVER.PHELPS.SMITH./.1895.' (lower right), dated 'JANUARY.MDCCCXCV.' (upper left)
watercolour
16.5 x 21.6cm (6 1/2 x 8 1/2in).

Footnotes

An artist's label verso reads:
'.Order.Commands.Disorder./The Brooklyn Trolley Strike January 1895/The Second Battalion 7th Regiment companies A, F & H/Marching down Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn N.Y./Oliver Phelps Smith/Artist/Brooklyn N.Y./1895'

Another artist's inscription affixed to the frame verso reads:
'Brooklyn Trolley Strike, January 1895/Second Battalion, Seventh Regt Co. A, T & H/marching down Bushwick avenue on the way/to Ridgewood (stables) ---- to quell rioting./Oliver P. Smith./1177 Bushwick ave./Brooklyn N.Y./Exhibited at New York Water Colour Club/"Order Commands Disorder."/Oliver Phelps Smith/391 Bainbridge St./Brooklyn N.Y./----Gallery Exhibition'

Provenance
Janet and John E Marqusee Collection, New York, no. 660.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 9 August 1995, lot 55.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale).

Exhibited
New York, New York Water Colour Club.
Boston, New Gallery Exhibition, November-December 1900.

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