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DE WITT CLINTON FALLS.
Fifth Ave Viaduct Harlem Coach. Watercolor and ink on board 279x470 mm; 11x18
1
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2
inches, image on board measuring 15x21
3
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4
inches. Signed in image, lower right and
“Copyright byWm. Clausen 1901” in lower left.
[300/400]
“Coaching Day,” held annually on the last Saturday in May, was the New York Coaching Club’s
grand parade along Fifth Avenue. New York City’s wealthy and fashionable leisure class of the late
19th Century would form in front of the Brunswick Hotel in brilliantly decorated four-in-hand tally-
ho coaches. With the president of the club leading, they moved up Fifth Avenue to 59th Street,
through Central Park to Mt. St.Vincent, returning to the Avenue and down to Washington Square,
before driving back to the Brunswick for the club’s annual dinner”—The NewYork Coaching Club,
article 5/22/2012.
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JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG.
“$30,000Would Make It Absolutely Certain.”Watercolor, ink and wash on board. 465x600
mm; 18
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2
x24 inches, sight size. Signed in full, lower right. Matte adhered to outer margins,
leaving title visible but story less so (appears to begin with the word “Thinking” and dated
January 1911; likely for Cosmopolitan). Framed.
[1,200/1,800]