Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

2 c EDWARD M. BANNISTER (1828 - 1901) Untitled (Rock Study with Clam Diggers, Rhode Island). Oil on linen canvas, circa 1880s to early 1890s. 406x610mm; 16x24 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: private collection, Long Island, NY; acquired at Clarke Auction Gallery, Larchmont, NY; private collection, Ontario (2014). This canvas is a fine example of Bannister’s mature period of painting en plein air . By the late 1890s, Bannister moved away from the Barbizon style of a poetic or idealized pastoral landscape. He