Lot Details
Lot 159
Walter Elmer Schofield
American, 1867-1944
Hill Town, Cornwall, circa 1919
Signed Schofield (lr); titled on a label affixed to the reverse and inscribed St. Keverne on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches
Provenance:
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by Walter Stein, Long Island, New York, 1945
Exhibited:
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1920, no 19
New York, The Macbeth Gallery, Paintings of Cornwall and Elsewhere by W. Elmer Schofield, Mar. 1-21, 1921, no. 15 (as The Hill Town), possibly
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Memorial Exhibition, W. Elmer Schofield, Mar. 27-Apr. 7, 1945
St. Keverne is a picturesque village in Cornwall located on the eastern side of the Lizard Peninsula. Schofield worked there repeatedly, painting houses and coastal scenes.
The original bill of sale from Grand Central Art Galleries accompanies this lot.
Property from the Estates of Walter and Sonja Caron Stein
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