
Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island
The Clock Doctor
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Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Bid
18,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island
Enoch Wood Perry
1831 - 1915
The Clock Doctor
signed E. Wood Perry N.A and dated N.Y - '71 (lower left); signed Perry and dated '71 (lower left)
oil on canvas tacked over panel
21 ⅝ by 26 ⅜ in.
55.1 by 67 cm.
Executed in 1871.
Theodore Irwin, Oswego, New York (acquired directly from the artist on 9 April 1871)
The Old Print Shop, New York (acquired by 1943 and until at least 1948)
Mrs. Thomas Payne
Titus C. Geesey, Wilmington, Delaware
Mrs. Marie Geesey, Wilmington, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above)
Grete Meilman Fine Art, New York
(probably) Private Collection, New York
Christie's, New York, 4 December 1996, lot 46
M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans
Acquired from the above in May 2019 by the present owner
New York, National Academy of Design, Summer Exhibition, 1871, no. 197
New York, Brooklyn Art Association, First Chronological Exhibition of American Art, March 1872, no. 232
New York, Brooklyn Art Association, Twenty-Seventh Reception of the Brooklyn Art Association, December 1873, no. 323
New York, The Old Print Shop, 1943, no. 8
New York, John Levy Galleries, American Art in the 19th Century: Its People — Pleasures — and Pursuits, 1944, no. 20
"The National Academy Exhibition," Scribner's Monthly, vol. II, no. 3, July 1871, p. 330
The Old Print Shop Portfolio, vol. III, no. 2, October 1943, no. 8, p. 39, illustrated
The Old Print Shop Portfolio, vol. IV, no. 8, April 1945, p. 180
The Old Print Shop Portfolio, vol. VII, no. 10, June - July 1948, no. 21, p. 239, illustrated
Linda Mary Jones Gibbs, Enoch Wood Perry, Jr.: A Biography and Analysis of His Thematic and Stylistic Development, Thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1981, fig. 36, p. 186, illustrated (dated 1872)
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