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American Art

26 September – 7 October 2025

Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Our American Art auction celebrates the nation's rich artistic legacy, spanning centuries and genres—from idyllic 19th-century pastoral scenes to atmospheric 20th-century seascapes. With a special focus on New England artists, this sale highlights paintings that evoke a profound sense of place, shaped by the land and rooted in enduring traditions.

Featuring works such as the luminous still lifes of Levi Wells Prentice, whose depictions of nature's bounty capture both the beauty and transience of the harvest, alongside Impressionistic landscapes, exemplified by Robert Reid's Stony Pasture and Andrew Wyeth's evocative watercolour of the wild Maine coastline, this collection offers a tribute to the region's diverse geography and people. These works are not only love letters to New England's natural splendour but also reflections on the industrial and socioeconomic transformations that began in the 19th century and continue to influence the region today.

Alongside Hudson River School landscapes, Luminist seascapes, and Academic genre scenes are works by members of the Rockport Art Association, exemplified by an early Spring view of Cape Ann by William Lester Stevens, and paintings by Boston artists, including Arthur Clifton Godwin's Boston Public Garden in Winter, depicting one of his favourite subjects - a crowded urban park, painted in animated brush strokes and vivid light, masterfully conveying the joy and energy of a snowy, sunny Boston day.

Amongst numerous 20th- and 21st-century masters, there are watercolours by the Cape Cod naturalist Robert Verity Clem and a modern, intimate 'portrait' of a farmhouse by Scott Prior, member of the Valley Realists group.

Auction highlights

Lot gallery

172 lots available

Thomas Birch(1779-1851)Ships Off Gibraltar

William Formby Halsall(1841-1919)The Moonlit Excursion

Marshall Johnson(1850-1921)Off Twin Lights

William Formby Halsall(1841-1919)Race for the Thomas Lipton Cup

William Pierce Stubbs(1842-1909)The Zacheus Sherman Passing by the New England Coast

Brian Coole(born 1939)American and British Clippers on Rough Seas

Michael Coleman(born 1946)A Rocky Mountain Encampment

Alexander François Loemans(circa 1816-1898)Looking Out Over the Falls

John George Brown(1831-1913)I Don't Believe a Word of It

Sanford Robinson Gifford(1823-1880)The Riverside

William Rickarby Miller(1818-1893)Moonlight on the Passaic River, Paterson, NJ

Jasper Francis Cropsey(1823-1900)North Conway, New Hampshire

Edmund Darch Lewis(1835-1910)A Mountain Stream with a Distant Hilltop Village

Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas(1832-1895)Sunset Along the Coast

Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas(1832-1895)Ships and a Trawler Off the Coast

Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas(1832-1895)Passing Shower

James Thorpe Flaherty(1836-1904)Boats Mooring with Distant Mountains

Attributed to William Guy Wall(1792-1864)Running the Stag

William Thompson Russell Smith(1812-1896)A Valley Landscape with a Boy and Cows

Augustus Rockwell(1822-1882)A Ship Off a Steep Rocky Coast

Charles Henry Gifford(1839-1904)Fishermen on a Stormy Sea

Malvina Hoffman(1887-1966)Young Neptune: Fountain

William Trost Richards(1833-1905)Lobster Traps on a Rocky Beach

Warren W. Sheppard(1858-1937)Waves Against a Rocky Beach

Theodore Lux Feininger(1910-2011)The Yawl Milky Way

Philip Little(1857-1942)Kingston Harbor in the Old Days

Frank Vining Smith(1879-1967)An American Clipper Ship on a Windy Day

John Ellsworth Weis(1892-1962)A Busy Harbor Under Gray Skies

Aldro Thompson Hibbard(1886-1972)Landing Pier, Monhegan Island, Maine

Carl Hoerman(1885-1955)The Dunes at Saugatuck

Henry Ward Ranger(1858-1916)Top of Lord's Hill

Chauncey Foster Ryder(1868-1949)The Pine Swamp Beneath the Billowing Clouds

Paul Sample(1896-1974)Village in Autumn

George Gardner Symons(1863-1930)A Farmhouse on a Country Road in Winter

Guy Carleton Wiggins(1883-1962)5th Ave at 56th Street in Winter

Arthur Clifton Goodwin(1866-1929)Boston Public Garden in Winter

Aldro Thompson Hibbard(1886-1972)Smoke Shack in Winter

Ogden Minton Pleissner(1905-1983)A Farmhouse in Winter at Twilight

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