WALTER LAUNT PALMER
American, 1854–1932
The Pine Grove
Signed W.L. PALMER; also inscribed with the artist's name and titled Under the Pines on the backing
Oil, gouache and graphite on millboard
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Framed: 36½ x 28½ inches (92.7 x 72.4 cm)
The artist was on the special committee for the exhibition and sale to benefit the New York Allied War Relief Fund and The Pine Grove was his only contribution to the auction at the American Art Association.
We are grateful to the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
Provenance
The Artist (sale, American Art Association, New York, 168 American paintings and sculpture contributed by artists for the Relief Fund of the American Artists' Relief Committee of One Hundred co-operating with the Fraternité des Artistes, Paris and for New York Allied War Relief, May 4, 1917, lot 154)
Collier Whittemore Baird, New Jersey and New York
Thence by descent (sale, Skinner, Boston, February 3, 2012, lot 468, illustrated)
Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, New York, 2013 to the present
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, 1912, no. 164, as Under the Pines
Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Paintings of Walter Launt Palmer, 1913, no. 11
New York, American Art Galleries, 1917, no. 154
Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Our Gilded Age, November 18, 2023 - March 10, 2024, p. 45
Literature
Florence N. Levy, American Art Annual, Washington, 1917, vol. XIV, p. 382
Maybelle Mann, Walter Launt Palmer: Poetic Reality, Exton, Pennsylvania, 1984, p. 173, no. 1155
$37,000