Lot 24I
20th C. Bransom Owl & Deane Portrait Pair
20th C. Bransom Owl & Deane Portrait Pair
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(1) Freddie Deane (American, active XX century). "Young Woman" pencil drawing on paper, n.d. Illegible signature at lower right; (2) Paul Bransom (American, 1885-1979). Snowy Owl. Watercolor on paper, n.d. Signed at lower left.. A pairing of two intimate American works on paper from the twentieth century, each modest in scale yet attentive in observation. The first, a graphite drawing by Freddie Deane (American, active 20th century) titled "Young Woman," presents a head-and-shoulders study of a girl with softly curling hair and large, candid eyes. Deane's pencil moves lightly, summoning volume through delicate hatching while leaving much of the sheet open to breathe, the unfinished shoulders dissolving into bare paper. An illegible signature rests at the lower right.
The second, by the celebrated wildlife illustrator Paul Bransom (American, 1885-1979), is a small watercolor of a snowy owl perched against a backdrop of bold, near-abstract brushwork in blue, ivory, and earthen brown. Bransom, often called the "dean of American animal artists," contributed illustrations to publications including the Saturday Evening Post and to editions of "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Call of the Wild." Here his command of avian anatomy is undimmed by scale, the bird's barred plumage and pale gold gaze rendered with quick, sure washes. Signed at lower left. Size of larger: 13.5" W x 13.5" H (34.3 cm W x 34.3 cm H).
Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico USA collection; ex-private Maine, USA collection
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203068
- Condition: Fair. Both have chipping to edges and some discoloring to paper, but otherwise clear imagery.
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