Edge of the Village
Circa 1938
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
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Framed: 28 1/4 x 34 1/4 inches
Inscription: Signed lower right
Provenance: Private Collection, Bloomington, Indiana; Robert W. Coy Collection, Chicago, Illinois (purchased through Eckert & Ross Fine Art, Indianapolis, April, 2020); Indianapolis, Indiana, Sale, Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company, February 20, 2022, lot 2; Private Collection, Carmel, Indiana (purchased from the former).
Exhibited: Picture Galleries, Marshall Field & Company, Chicago, Illinois, "1939 Hoosier Salon," January 30–February 11, 1939 (101, label verso); Nashville, Indiana, Brown County Art Gallery, 2008 Collectors' Showcase, "L. O. Griffith: Brown County Pioneer, American Artist," October 4–5, 2008; Evansville, Indiana, Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, "C. Curry Bohm: Brown County and Beyond," February 27–June 12, 2022 (68); Nashville, Indiana, Brown County Art Gallery, "2022 Collectors' Showcase: Snowfall," October 1–November 13, 2022 (label verso); Garrett, Indiana, Garrett Museum of Art, "Early Brown County Artists," April 8–July 2, 2023 (label verso); Nashville, Indiana, Brown County Art Gallery, "Collectors' Showcase 2024, Hoosier Salon Centennial: Art From the Heartland," October 5–November 10, 2024 (label verso).
Literature: Illustrated in the catalog accompanying the above 2008 Collectors' Showcase exhibition, p. 10 (color); illustrated in the catalog accompanying the above 2022 Collectors' Showcase exhibition, p. 10 (color); illustrated in the catalog accompanying the above 2024 Collectors' Showcase exhibition, p. 20 (color).
Note: One of the artist's finest pictures, and with an extensive exhibition history to prove it. Original frame.
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