The Curator’s Eye, (www.CuratorsEye.com), the distinctive online platform for the finest art and antiques from distinguished dealers across the globe, is pleased to present a choice offering of fine American paintings, decorative arts, and folk art for private sale. In conjunction with Americana week in New York City, these exceptional items include works by prominent American painters such as Frank Usher DeVoll and Norman Rockwell.  

Also on offer in honor of the holidays is a charming New Year’s card by American favorite Norman Rockwell. Showing the aftermath of what appears to be a great party, this oil sketch is typical of the artist’s work for the Saturday Evening Post. He believed the time he spent in the countryside was a great influence on his idyllic approach to storytelling on canvas. Norman Rockwell's human interpretation of the American scene survived the criticism of art connoisseurs. His work was revered year after year on magazine covers by generations of Rockwell watchers.

A distinguished copy of Lewis and Clark’s History of the Expedition..., published in 1814, affords a special opportunity to own an important piece of American history. This first edition of “the definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent” is an undisputed high spot of Americana that “must ever remain the basis of a collection of western books.” The two volumes both include engraved, landmark maps of the trek “to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”

Frank Usher DeVoll’s 1915 oil on canvas, Madison Square Tower and Park, captures the artist’s concepts of Impressionism inspired by great American painters such as William Merritt Chase. This is a very fine example of the artist’s best period circa 1915. F. Usher De Voll studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, as well as under such leading artists as William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and at the Academie Julian with J. P. Laurens. He was a member many art clubs and leagues, including the Salmagundi Club, and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.

Also of note is a Rookwood Pottery decorative panel depicting a scene from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Originally commissioned for a Cincinnati gentleman’s club at the turn of the century, this theatrical composition was intended for viewers with a taste for art, literature, and the macabre. The panel illustrates the moment from Act IV, Scene I, when the Second Witch warns her sisters: "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." Specially treated and colored to suggest a foul and fetid atmosphere, the relief is skillfully modelled and richly detailed.

The molded panel joins a fine Boston Mahogany inlaid sideboard from the workshop of John and Thomas Seymour, c. 1810. This sideboard is a beautiful example of the Seymour work being done in Boston in the early 19th century. This sideboard relies on its beautifully figured mahogany, which is crossbanded with rosewood between a line inlay of satinwood and ebony. It retains a very austere rectangle shape, which is quite classical and an antithesis to the earlier Chippendale scrolled and curved lines.

Another stirring American item available is a lithograph of the U.S. Capitol building by the firm of George Stinson & Co. in 1871. Stinson & Co. was a Portland, Maine lithography firm that issued a number of patriotic lithographs in the late 19th century. This dynamic print is a front elevation view of the United States Capitol building, with trees in the foreground. The building is shown as it appeared shortly after a period of continuous major construction, including the completion of the present-day dome, which spanned 1855-66.

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