SAMUEL S. CARR (1837-1908)

Lot 349
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Lot 349 | SAMUEL S. CARR (1837-1908)
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
SAMUEL S. CARR (1837-1908)
Beach Scene with Acrobats, Coney Island
signed 'S.S. Carr.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
6 x 10 in. (15.2 x 25.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1879-81.




Provenance

Robert P. Coggins, Marietta, Georgia, by 1976.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Lano Art Association, New York.
Helen Marx, New York, acquired from the above, 1980.
Estate of the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 2011, lot 4, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

B. Chambers, "A Southern Odyssey: The Robert P. Coggins Collection of American Painting," American Art Review, vol. IV, no. 2, August 1977, p. 36, illustrated (as Beach Scene with Acrobats).



Exhibited

Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Rochester, New York, University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery; Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Selections from the Robert P. Coggins Collection of American Painting, December 3, 1976-June 12, 1977.
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College, S.S. Carr, April 2-May 30, 1976, pp. 9, 13, no. 3, illustrated (as Beach Scene with Acrobats).
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art; Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Museum, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008, January 31, 2015-September 11, 2016 (as Beach Scene with Acrobats).
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