Lost and Found
A few Harold Weston paintings have flown like milkweed seeds into the wide world, leaving no trace of where they eventually landed. If you have had any sightings of these “lost” paintings please contact us. Or if you have or know of any Weston painting, tell us about it—probably we don’t know all we’re missing!
Below are the best images and most recent information we have.
Sunset from Ampersand Mountain
Oil on canvas, 1922.
Exhibited Montross Galleries, 1922.
We do not have an image of the painting, however this image is of the sketch (oil on cardboard) that was done on the spot. The studio painting would likely have similar forms and colors.
Ferns in Studio
Oil on canvas, 20” x 22”, 1933-49.
Exhibited Mellon Galleries, Philadelphia, 1933; Studio House, Washington, D.C., 1936; and Lake Placid Center for the Arts, New York, 1994.
Sold by Lake Placid Lodge in 1996.
Pitcher Plants
Oil on canvas, 34” x 20”, no date visible, c. 1934-35.
Exhibited Butler Art Institute, 1953; and Lake Placid Center for the Arts, New York, 1994.
Sold by Lake Placid Lodge in 1996.
Duck and Bath
Oil on canvas, 19” x 25½”, 1931.
Auctioned by Phillips Auction (New York City) from Marjorie Phillips Estate, April 1986.
Giant in Moonlight
Oil on canvas, dimensions unknown, 1932.
Depicts wintry view out artist’s studio window. Given by artist circa 1956 to Emil Halonen (deceased) who lived in Germantown, PA.
Keel of a Tanker
Gouache on paper, 11” x 18¾”, 1935.
Auctioned by the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), April 1977.
This image is an oil on canvas owned by the Independence Seaport Museum (Philadelphia) that is identical to the missing gouache painting.
Dream
Casein on cardboard, 12” x 22”, 1962.
Gift by the artist to the Oakland Museum in 1962; auctioned by Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Los Angeles) in March 1975.
The artist’s oil on canvas paintings from the early Adirondack period were first exhibited at the Montross Gallery in 1922. Each painting in the show had a unique frame that was gilded and hand carved by the artist. The painting shown here, Noonday Sun, 1922, owned by the Adirondack Experience (formerly the Adirondack Museum), displays its original frame. We are looking for four paintings from the same series for which we have no images. Their titles at the time were:
Forest Winter III
SnowBound
Upper Ausable Lake - Autumn
Windy Brow (lent to O.H. Cosgrave in 1923)