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Molly Luce Painting

"Fire in Tobacco Barn" Molly Luce, Modernist, Female Artist, Western Scene
"Fire in Tobacco Barn" Molly Luce, Modernist, Female Artist, Western Scene

"Fire in Tobacco Barn" Molly Luce, Modernist, Female Artist, Western Scene

Located in New York, NY

Molly Luce Fire in Tobacco Barn, 1938 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Provenance Childs Gallery, Boston Private Collection, Massachusetts (acquired from the above) ...

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Zoological Garden

Molly LuceZoological Garden, 1927

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H 30 in W 37.25 in D 2 in

Zoological Garden

Located in Boston, MA

Signed and dated lower left: "Molly Luce 27". In fine condition. A similar painting, The Zoo (1926), is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Category

1920s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)

Located in Boston, MA

Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont". In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden Street on Beacon Hill in Bos...

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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Four Generations, Landscape and Figures by Female American Realist Artist
Four Generations, Landscape and Figures by Female American Realist Artist

Four Generations, Landscape and Figures by Female American Realist Artist

Located in Doylestown, PA

"Four Generations" is a 30 x 40 inches landscape with figures and animals, painted by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce. The painting is signed Molly Luce in the lower lef...

Category

1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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