Works by many of America’s most notable and iconic artists highlight a major sale at Freeman’s in Philadelphia on December 4. Get the inside scoop here!

A carefully curated selection of fresh-to-market American paintings, drawings, and sculptures heads to the auction block via Freeman’s on December 4 as part of the institution’s “American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists” sale. Many of the artworks come from private collections and estates and are making their auction debut.

Jessie Willcox Smith, “The Goblins Fell Back a Little When He Began, and made Horrible Grimaces All Through the Rhyme,” mixed media, 22 x 16 in. (c) Freeman’s 2016
Jessie Willcox Smith, “The Goblins Fell Back a Little When He Began, and made Horrible Grimaces All Through the Rhyme,” mixed media, 22 x 16 in. (c) Freeman’s 2016
N.C. Wyeth, “The Departure of the Rose,” oil on canvas, 40 1/2 x 30 in. (c) Freeman’s 2016
N.C. Wyeth, “The Departure of the Rose,” oil on canvas, 40 1/2 x 30 in. (c) Freeman’s 2016

Included in the sale are some of the most prized artists in American history, including Western master Frederic Remington along with N.C. and Andrew Wyeth, Edward Willis Redfield, and Fern Isabel Coppedge. Other artist highlights include Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Thomas Hart Benton, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Grant Wood, Thomas Moran, and Arthur Meltzer.

To view the full catalogue and to learn more, visit Freeman’s.

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Andrew Webster is the former Editor of Fine Art Today and worked as an editorial and creative marketing assistant for Streamline Publishing. Andrew graduated from The University of North Carolina at Asheville with a B.A. in Art History and Ceramics. He then moved on to the University of Oregon, where he completed an M.A. in Art History. Studying under scholar Kathleen Nicholson, he completed a thesis project that investigated the peculiar practice of embedded self-portraiture within Christian imagery during the 15th and early 16th centuries in Italy.

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