STANLEY MASSEY ARTHURS | THE REFUGEES FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER (THE WAR OF 1812)

Property from a Collection of American Illustration
STANLEY MASSEY ARTHURS
1877 - 1950
THE REFUGEES FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER (THE WAR OF 1812)

signed SM Arthurs (lower left)
oil on canvasboard
29 ¼ by 19 ½ inches
74.3 by 49.5 cm)
Painted circa 1904.

Condition Report:
There is frame abrasion at edges and the surface of the work appears to be slightly dirty. There is scattered fine surface cracking. Under UV: there is inpainting to address frame abrasion, there is pentimenti visible around the red leaves at lower left.

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Provenance:
American Illustrators Gallery, New York

S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., Florida, 1992 (acquired from the above)

By descent to the present owner