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EDWARD M. BANNISTER (1828 - 1901)
The Turning Lane
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Oil on linen canvas. circa 1880-85. 483x343 mm; 19x13
1
/
2
inches. Inscribed “Tower Road, New
Boston, NH....Ellen H. Klein (?)” in pencil, lower stretcher bar verso.
Provenance: the estate of GeorgeW.Whitaker (1841-1916), Providence, RI; Kenkeleba Gallery, New
York, NY; Roger King Gallery, Newport, RI, with the gallery label on the frame back; private
collection, NewYork.
GeorgeW.Whitaker (1841 - 1916) was a friend and a fellow Providence painter and, with Bannister,
Charles Walter Setson, and Frederick Batchellor, was one of the original co-founders of the
Providence Art Club. He also owned a significant collection of works by Bannister at the time of
Bannister’s passing.
Exhibited:
19th and 20th CenturyAfricanAmericanArt
, Kenkeleba Gallery,NewYork,May 8 - July 9, 2000.
TheTurning Lane
is an attractive view of the New Hampshire pine forests where the artist ventured in
the summer for
plein air
landscape subjects. New Boston is on the Piscatoquog River, a branch of the
Merrimack River where Bannister would have stopped on his travels north. Bannister had used forest
paths and such vertical formats in several other related New England landscape paintings to take the
viewer into the subject. Here Bannister takes us up a logger’s path into an atmospheric setting.
We would like to thank art historian Anne Louis Avery, who is currently working on the first catalogue
raisonné of Edward Bannister’s work, for her opinion and report on this painting. Her detailed
authentication report will accompany the sale of this painting.
[12,000/18,000]
