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AMERICAN FURNITURE, FOLK & DECORATIVE
ARTS
2 MAY 2014
LOT 88
Eunice Pinney (Connecticut, 1770-1849)
two works: friendship, circa 1820, and young girl with
goat
Both watercolor on paper, framed.
12 1/2 in. x 9 3/4 in. (sight) and 9 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in.
(sight)
PROVENANCE:
Property of a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Collector.
Friendship: Christie's, New York, Important American
Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts June
1999, lot 91.
Ex-Collection: Colonel Edgar William and Bernice
Chrysler Garbisch.
Exhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, Nineteenth Century American Women Artists,
January-February 1976.
Young Girl with Goat: Sotheby's, New York, Fine
Americana and Silver, June 17, 1999, lot 87.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
A native of Simsbury and Windsor, Connecticut,
Eunice Griswold Pinney (1770-1849) was a rarity in
so far as she was a remarkably educated young girl,
regarded by her brother as 'a woman of uncommonly
extensive reading.' Though her work utilizes similar
techniques and shares themes with that produced by
schoolgirls, Pinney did not begin painting watercolors
until her thirties. Her oeuvre reflects her maturity,
relates to her life and experiences, and contains more
subtle symbols and literary allusions. See Susan
Foster, "Couple & Casualty: The Art of Eunice Pinney
Unveiled," Folk Art: Magazine of the Museum of
American Folk Art, Vol. 21, Number 2, Summer 1996,
pp. 30-37.
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