Day-1: VICTORIAN & ESTATE ANTIQUES AUCTION | May 8th
Wed, May 8, 2024 09:30PM EDT
Lot 137
JE STUART "HELL'S HALF ACRE, EXCELSIOR GEYSER" YELLOWSTONE PARK OIL PAINTING
Sold for
$2,300
Sold Price excludes BP
Bid Increments
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Original oil painting on canvas by listed artist, James Everett Stuart (Calif., Ill., Maine 1852 - 1941), signed lower left. On the verso, painting titled "Excelsior Geyser or Hell's Half Acre, Yellowstone National Park", dated July 13, 1885 & numbered No. 781. Canvas measures 18" tall and 30" wide mounted in a frame 24" x 36".
Condition
Canvas has been re-lined.
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James Everett Stuart is known for his panoramic landscapes from Maine to California to Alaska to the Panama Canal, but especially of the American West with focus on Northern California and Oregon. Many of the owners of old homes in California have his paintings on the wall, suggestive of a time of grandeur. One of his paintings is in the White House, and his work is in the historical societies of Oregon, Washington, and Montana.