Sale 2487 - African-American Fine Art, October 4, 2018

3 c EDWARD M. BANNISTER (1828 - 1901) Landscape with Cow and Female Figure . Watercolor on cream wove paper, circa 1881. 336x489 mm; 13 1 / 4 x19 1 / 4 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower right. With a fragment of backing paper, signed and dated in pencil, matted with the watercolor, lower right. Provenance: Dr. Charles H. Mandell, Los Angeles; Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, Newport, RI; private collection, New York (1991). Dr. Mandell was a significant collector of early American landscapes in 1983, he donated five Bannister paintings and a Duncanson to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.