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Collections      Farmscape painting - Price on RequestL. E. MONTY Probably Waupaca County, Wisconsin, circa 1871Oil paint on canvas, with original stretchers, 30 x 48 inches, with a period red painted frame Signed lower right: “L. E. MONTY” Inscribed on back of stretcher “Painted 1871”. A possible identification of the folk art artist of this farmscape is Lucadie Monty, born February 17, 1851, died March 9, 1912. She was the wife of John Monty (1837-1891), a farmer. According to the 1880 United States Federal Census, the couple had five children ranging in age from one to thirteen years, and they resided in Bear Creek, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. This work may depict the Monty Family Farm charmingly detailed with a cow weathervane atop a copula on the roof of the red barn, a post and barbed wire fenced farmyard with cows, sheep, horses and chickens, with the farmhouse in the distance. The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued in 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio. Provenance: Found in central Wisconsin. Federal painted and inlaid stand with twist-turned legsHooked Rug with Kittens Austin T. Miller American Antiques deals in American Folk Art, Americana, and Antique Folk Art. Valuation services and consignment sales are available for rare and important antique folk art, artwork, textiles, or antique furniture. Commonly sought items from within our American Folk Art Collection are antique weathervanes, whirligigs and folk art paintings. Austin T. Miller American Antiques has decades of expertise in rare outsider and naive art, as well as specific interests in paint decorated and antique furniture, baskets, and hooked rugs. For consignment sales inquiries, please use the contact link on this site or call during business hours.       |
