19
EDWARD F. ROOK (American, 1870-1960)
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000
Passed
Live Auction
July 2017 Estate Auction
Category
Description
Haunted House
oil on canvas
h. 30 w. 36
signed lower left, titled with address and agent's name on old label on verso
Exhibited:
National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition, 1908;
Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy 1908 (#565); and other places
This painting depicts the Richard Sill Griswold House at 9 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, CT. Informally known as Boxwood", the house was built by Richard Sill Griswold around 1842 and in 1904 became a hotel, the Boxwood Manor Inn, where artists and students at the Old Lyme Art Colony stayed.
Condition: craquelure, no apparent restoration, estate condition
oil on canvas
h. 30 w. 36
signed lower left, titled with address and agent's name on old label on verso
Exhibited:
National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition, 1908;
Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy 1908 (#565); and other places
This painting depicts the Richard Sill Griswold House at 9 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, CT. Informally known as Boxwood", the house was built by Richard Sill Griswold around 1842 and in 1904 became a hotel, the Boxwood Manor Inn, where artists and students at the Old Lyme Art Colony stayed.
Condition: craquelure, no apparent restoration, estate condition
