Late Afternoon, Riverside Drive

Name: HAROLD LEDYARD TOWLE (1890-1973)
Brand: Late Afternoon, Riverside Drive
Price: 1300.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 1,638

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USD 2,000 - USD 3,000

Closed: 18 Oct 2024

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HAROLD LEDYARD TOWLE (1890-1973)

Late Afternoon, Riverside Drive

Price Realised USD 1,638

Closed: 18 Oct 2024

Price Realised USD 1,638

Closed: 18 Oct 2024

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HAROLD LEDYARD TOWLE (1890-1973)
Late Afternoon, Riverside Drive
signed 'Towle.' (lower left)
oil on board
8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm.)

MME Fine Art, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2006.

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Lot Essay

H. Ledyard Towle was born in 1890 in Brooklyn, New York, and worked as the first American camouflagist during World War I. After the war, he worked as a painter and color engineer at multiple organizations, namely the Division of Creative Design and Color at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.

The present work depicts a view of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument located in Riverside Park, New York. Designed by the Stoughton brothers, the monument commemorates the Union Soldiers who fought in the American Civil War and was unveiled on Memorial Day in 1902.