ENOCH WOOD PERRY | COUNTRY BOY

Property from a Midwestern Estate
ENOCH WOOD PERRY
1831 - 1915
COUNTRY BOY

Signed E W Perry Jr and dated 72 (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 by 15 ¾ inches
(50.8 by 40 cm)

Condition Report:
The canvas is lined, tacked over panel and the edges are trimmed. There is frame abrasion with a few associated losses at edges and there is fine surface cracking throughout. There is a small penny-sized divot in the canvas near the center top edge. Under UV: the work retains an uneven varnish; there appear to be some lines of inpainting to address frame abrasion.

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Provenance:
Hammer Galleries, New York

R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1990