Before the Hunt
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches
Signed lower left: P. B. PARSONS
$7,500
Description
Phillip Brown Parsons was a painter and illustrator, born in West Medford, Massachusetts, in 1896. He studied at the Boston School of Painting and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the Scott Carbee School of Art and Child Walker School of Art.
Provenance
Private collection, Townsend, Massachusetts
To Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 27851, November 1984
To private collection, Newbury, Massachusetts, December 1986
With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 35404, September 2009
To private collection, Beverly, Massachusetts, September 2011 to present
Inscriptions
Labels
- Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 27851
- Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 35404
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Good. The painting is wax lined and has scattered dots of in-paint, mostly found in the doorway and in a cluster below the dog. There are some sporadic dos of in-paint in the central figure’s pants and boots, in the two boys at right, and some minor retouch along the lower frame edge.
