SAL record control number: 128067 ;

Record level: Item ;

Record type: Movable work ;

Work title: Nassau Point, Long Island [from collection database] ;

Alternate work titles:
2022 : Nassau Point, Long Island [from collection database] ;
1978 : Nassau Point, Long Island  [from letter from donor] ;

Work date: 1926  [from collection database] ;

Work creator: Benjamin Edward Shepardson (1898-1954) [RP 1943-1954] ;

Work medium: Oil on panel ;
Work dimensions: 12-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches [unframed] | 18-1/2 x 23-1/2 x 2 inches [framed] ;

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower right
Dated?: ?
Text: ‘Shepardson’.

Verso:

Marking type: Hand writing.
Location: Verso.
Text: ‘Nassau Point, Long Island / Ben Shepardson / Ā£30.0.0 / Oct 1926 / order no. 17614’.

SAL category: Paintings ;
SAL sub-category: Oil ;

Archives of American Art subjects:

Description of work:

Provenance:
1978 Salmagundi, New York, NY, gift of Frederick Ligerot Hamilton (1900-1989), Naples, FL, accession #2007.73 ;
ca.1954 Private collection of Frederick Ligerot Hamilton (1900-1989), Naples, FL ;
1926 Benjamin Edward Shepardson (1898-1954) [RP 1943-1954], the artist .

Exhibition history
– 2020 Salmagundi auction [may have been sold] ; 
– ca.1926 Westchester City Art Fair, Westchester, NY ;

References / citations:
– Collection database, accession #2007.707
– 1989 Collection list, accession #O-142

Notes:
– Won 1st prize at Westchester City Art Fair, Westchester, NY, unknown date [ca.1926].

Document information

Document permalink:
http://salmagundi.org/artwork/?p=128067

Digital-born document number:
SAL.2021.128067

Record birth date:
October 29, 2021

Last updated: May 23, 2023 at 14:26 pm