A Vintage American Architectural Watercolor of a Garden Gate

A Vintage American Architectural Watercolor of a Garden Gate

This is a tightly drafted and skillful watercolor on paper by Eleanor Hart Levis (1889-1967) working as C. E. Hart. The subject is a stone fence enclosed garden with an elaborate wrought iron gate and a guard or attendant's tower also made of stone. To the right is a suggestion of a body of water and a distant shore. It is signed "C E Hart" in the lower left. It is matted and framed in a vintage, thin wood frame with a sharp angular bead on its outer edge. Provenance of the watercolor is: the estate of the artist through purchase from a Pennsylvania dealer about 20 years ago. It was acquired as part of a large group of landscape and still life watercolors.

Eleanor Hart Levis was a woman painter who worked primarily in Pennsylvania. Little is known about her except that she worked as an illustrator. Two books that she illustrated were: Ann Hark, "Hex Marks the Spot: In the Pennsylvania Dutch Country," New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1938; and Ann Hark, "Blue Hills and Shoofly Pie in Pennsylvania Dutchland," New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1952. Her specialty was landscape and still life painting in watercolor.

Condition is very good.

Measurements are: watercolor, 6 1/2 inches x 7 1/2 inches; frame, outer dimensions, 12 1/2 inches x 13 1/4 inches.

This is a well laid out and skillfully executed watercolor by an American woman artist. It also is a terrific small scale rendering of an ever popular subject.

Item ID: JT103

$95 USD

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