The Angela Gross Folk Collection

Charles Hargens Illustration Nerve of Some Animals

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Estimated price: $300 - $500

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Charles Hargens (American, 1893-1997). Charcoal and watercolor illustration on panel, Lives in Our Midst, for chapter 1 of The Nerve of Some Animals. Initialed CH in ink center left, and titled in pencil in the lower margin "Lives In Our Midst I". With label on verso "The Nerve of Some Animals, Chapter 1, ‘Lives in our Midst’" and notations written in ink "Published by J.B. Lippincotts" and "Drawing to be returned to Charles Hargens". Unframed, matted. Panel 8 3/4" x 11" (with mat 11 7/8" x 13"). Mat detached, with adhesive residue throughout margins and into image, some smudging visible in image, light toning to mat, creasing to mat.

Provenance: From the Estate of Angela Gross Folk.

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