Lot Details
Lot 97
Edward Laning
American, 1906-1982
Scenes from The Passion of Carrie Nation, 1962
(i) Carrie Raised from the Pit (The Vision)
Signed with initials E.L. (ll); inscribed Carry [sic] Raised from the Pit and dated 1962 on a strip of card affixed to the backing
Brown wash and graphite pencil heightened with white on paper
12 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches
(ii) In the Buggy (The Road to Kiowa)
Signed with initials E.L. (ll); inscribed In the Buggy and dated 1962 on a strip of card affixed to the backing
Brown wash and graphite pencil heightened with white on paper
12 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
(iii) Carrie Nation in the Wichita Saloon (The Wichita Saloon)
Signed with initials E.L. (lr); inscribed Carrie Nation in the Wichita Saloon and dated 1962 on a strip of card affixed to the backing
Brown wash and graphite pencil heightened with white on paper
12 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches
(iv) Carrie Incarcerated (Topeka)
Signed Laning (lr); inscribed Carrie Incarcerated (Topeka) and dated 1961 on a strip of card affixed to the backing
Brown wash and graphite pencil heightened with white on paper
11 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches
(v) The Death of Carry [sic] Nation (I Have Done what I Could)
Signed with initials E.L. (lr); inscribed The Death of Carry Nation and dated 1962 on a strip of card affixed to the backing
Brown wash and graphite pencil heightened with white on paper
12 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches
Literature:
Howard E. Wooden, Edward Laning: American Realist, 1906-1981, The Wichita Art Museum, Sep. 11-Oct 17, 1982, pp 14-15. The related large oils are reproduced as figs. 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35.
The present works appear to be preparatory studies for five large oil studies for an intended sequence of murals titled The Passion of Carrie Nation. "Although finished murals were never undertaken, the studies themselves relate closely in style to easel paintings executed during the late 1950s and are actually the only mural studies which stylistically deviate from the manner which he had adopted in the mid 1930s.. Laning had read and studied The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation, Written by Herself, published in 1905, and saw Carrie Nation as a determined person, strong in character and dedicated to the values in which she believed." [Howard E. Wooden, Edward Laning: American Realist, 1906-1981, The Wichita Art Museum, Sep. 11-Oct 17, 1982, pp 14-15]
The titles for the corresponding large oil studies to which the present works relate are indicated in parentheses in the cataloguing for the individual works.
C A New England Collection
Additional Notes & Condition Report
i. No condition issues noted
ii. No condition issues noted
iii. Tiny loss at lower edge at center
iv. No condition losses noted
v. 1/2 inch strip of brown tape across the upper edge
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