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LÖIS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)
Boats, Menemsha
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Oil on linen canvas, circa 1940s. 305x229 mm; 12x9 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed
and titled in brown ink, upper stretcher bar verso.
Provenance: private Massachusetts collection.
This colorful view of Menemsha is an early example of the artist’s oil painting on Martha’sVineyard.
Her
Indian Shops, Gay Head, Massachusetts
, 1940, is in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC.
[8,000/12,000]
