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 ART GALLERIES 
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 AMES P. SILO, = = > AUCTIONEER. 
 
 CATALOGU E 
 
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 ELEVEN CHOICE 
 
 OIL PAINTINGS 
 HENR P. SMITH. 
 
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 SATURDAY G, DECEMBER 6TH. 
 
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 i. The highest bidder to be the buyer, and if any diis- 
 pute arise between two or more bidders, the lot so [in 
 dispute shall be immediately put up again and resold. 
 
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 2, The purchasers to give their names and addresses 
 and to pay down a cash deposit, or the whole of tthe 
 purchase money, é/ required, in default of which the hot 
 or lots so purchased to be immediately put up again ud 
 
 esold. 
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 3. The lots to be taken away at the buyer’s expemse 
 and risk upon the conclusion of the sale and the remain - 
 
 der of the purchase money to be absolutely paid) or 
 otherwise settled for to the satisfaction of the auctioneer, 
 on or before delivery; in default of which the undersign- 
 ed will not hold himself responsible if the lots be lost, 
 stolen, damaged or destroyed, but they will be left at 
 the sole risk of the purchaser. j 
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 4. The sale of any article is not to be set aside o1) ac- 
 count of any errorin the description. All articles are 
 exposed for public exhibition one or more days anc are 
 sold just as they are, without recourse. 
 
 5. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconven- 
 ience in settlement of the purchases, no lot can on any 
 account be removed during the sale. 
 
 6. If, for any cause, an article purchased cannot be 
 delivered in as good condition as the same may have 
 peen at the time of its sale, or should any article pur- 
 chased thereafter be stolen or misdelivered, or lost,the 
 undersigned is not to be held liable in any greater 
 amount than the price bid by the purchaser. 
 
 7. Upon failure to comply with the above conditions, 
 the money deposited in part payment shall be forteited, 
 all lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re- 
 sold by public or private sale, without further notice, 
 and the deficiency, if any, attending such re-sale shall be 
 made good by the defaulter at this sale, together with 
 all charges attending the same. his condition is with- 
 out prejudice to the right of the auctioneer to enforce 
 the contract made at this,sale, without such re-sale if he 
 thinks fit. 
 
 JAMES P. SILO, Auctioneer. 
 
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Henry P. Smith. 
 
 Jas born February the 20th, 1854, in Water- 
 ford, Connectic ¢. He is preeminently self- 
 taught. Quite early he left the tender beauty of 
 his native state for the broader possibilities of an 
 artist’s life in New York. His first exhibit was 
 made in the galleries of the American Water 
 Color Society, of which organization he is nowa 
 distinguished member. His career may be said 
 to have begun with his paintings of New Eng- 
 land Marines and Pastorals. His intimacy with 
 his great teacher—Nature—is evidenced in that 
 she always reveals to him and through him, 
 Truth—laid in his own country or in those he 
 has grown to know so well—Spain, Italy, France, 
 Holland. 
 
EARLY SPRING, CONNECTICUT 
 
 Ouly the most charming confidence with nature 
 could give such power as this little canvas evidences, 
 to show one of her sweetest, tenderest phases. The 
 dark greens of winter, shown in the forest-clad 
 slopes, that stretch out into dreamy perspective, are 
 assuming more vibrant line under the touch of spring. 
 The tender coolness of the forest breath that goes 
 straight up to meet the crystal-blue of the spring sky, 
 is felt as well as seen, The edges that dipdown to the 
 water’s edge, below the gently sloping bank, are crisp 
 with life-giving elements. The water itself, placid and 
 mirror-like, reflects the glory it vivifies. At the right, 
 approached by a country lane, is a low-roofed, well- 
 kept farm house. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 14 x 20in. 
 
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 LIGHT AND SHADOW 
 
 This isa canvas that reveals, that strength of nature 
 interputation which made the Barbizon Masters. <A 
 superb sky, vivid blue with low moving masses of opal- 
 escent clouds, in which deep violet prevails. A fine per- 
 spective of rich, undulating meadow. land. <A belt of 
 sunlight so golden-warm that, glancing over into the 
 shadows, it brings out their parts with cameo-like 
 charm, A superb oak, strong, knotted, majestic, casts 
 rich ’broidery of shade upon the white farm-house it 
 partly hides. Down by the clear water that sends. this 
 golden glory back two-fold, a red barn adds a charming 
 color-note to the harmony. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 14 x 20in. 
 
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 AN ADIRONDACK LAKE 
 
 The dominant key to this canvas is its living, 
 moving mountain sky-depth, within depth of 20 feet 
 pearl-edged clouds, over clear exquisite blue. The 
 clouds caress the forests of the mountain heights that 
 close in, while yet they open up the perspective. A 
 delicious stretch of lower foresty and meadow-slope, 
 golden light flecked beneath the hills within their 
 midst, a smart chalet-like cottage or two. Into the ex- 
 quisite bit of lake the flower-gemmed banks look down, 
 Narcissus-like. On the lake in a flat-bottomed skiff, 
 floats an angler enjoying his sport at ease. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 14 x 201n. 
 
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 MIDSUMMER MORNING, EAST LYME, 
 CONNECTICUT 
 
 The mellow clearness of a warm summer sky floods 
 down to gather up the imist-incense of forestry and 
 meadow-land, whose exquisite tones of green clothe the 
 banks on either side of a little stream, clear as the tone 
 of a silver bell, meadow and forestry stretching on to- 
 gether in beautiful perspective. On the right bank of 
 the stream a cottage with quaint stoop and well-sweep, 
 all of soft time-toned grey, is sheltered by great elins, 
 oaks and cedars. A wooden bridge spans the stream in 
 the background and there isa low red barn, midway 
 between trees and shore. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 12x I6in. 
 
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 BLOWING UP A STORM, STAR ISLAND, 
 COAST OF MAINE 
 
 It would be difficult to find a more striking example 
 of ‘‘ New England’s Rock Bound Coast.’’ The sky is 
 lowery, agitated. At the right, huge, red-browed 
 boulders, so bold that they seem defying the strength 
 of the sea that, tho’ commencing it’s storm with 
 dashes of foam, ‘‘soft as carded wool,’’ and low thrilling 
 throbbing undulations full of repressed strength has 
 power to crumble the arrogant boulders away. In the 
 distance, sea-craft with heads well down to the water, 
 and a screaming gull or two. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 14 x 20in. 
 
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 HILL AND DALE, NEW ENGLAND 
 
 Another canvas, very suggestive of the Barbizon 
 Masters’ strength. A sky of living, brilliant blue is 
 shown in drifts of violet-grey clouds. At the left a 
 magnificent solitary oak laces the shadow by its foliage 
 over the rich woodland beneath. At the right a low- 
 roofed red cottage, modest but well kept, with clearing 
 to the foreground. At the roadside near the cottage a 
 woman looks up the road that stretches on and on, 
 ‘royally golden to the west.’’ 
 
 Size of Canvas, 16 x 1Sin. 
 
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 MORNING IN VENICE 
 
 Here Mr. Smith shows us a bit of the ‘‘ Poesy of 
 Venice Light,’’ quite off the beaten track, yet soft and 
 sweet as the sound of music on the Grand Canal. The 
 sky is hazily blue. In the foregreund, just across from 
 a little canaletto, is the end of a Venetian palazzo, 
 pearl-white once, time-touched now, with patches of 
 red and orange and russet brown. At the graceful 
 windows in the palazzo are careless touches of soft, 
 ‘warm colors. Its ornamental balconies are overflowing 
 with vines and plants, and inthe tiny garden at the 
 corer is a little sroup of shade-trees, Lhe palazzo 
 fronts the Grand Canal. A gondola is drawiug np to 
 its vermillion entrance ports 
 
 Size of Canvas, 12 x I16i1). 
 
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 MORNING IN MIDSUMMER 
 
 This canvas shows Mr. Smith’s lake painting at its 
 most alluring aspect. It isa broad, sweet, midsummer 
 idyl. The lake, pellucid, deep, wooing, flower and 
 sedge fringed, fills quite a portion of this important 
 work. An angleris taking his fill of its sport and 
 beauty in the delicious early hours. ‘The hill and dale 
 stretches on the lake’s farther shore are rich commiing- 
 lings of greens, golden browns and violets. A soft mist 
 is lifting from the shore-lands to mingle with the softly 
 intense bluesky marks our great lake expanses. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 25 x 35in. 
 
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 EARLY SPRING 
 
 On this charining canvas Mr. Smith shows how well 
 he knows the power of his skies. This sky—tenderly 
 blue and grey and violet—dips low to meet the forestry 
 beyond the old, time-toned, gabled-roofed cottage 
 close by the stream dimpling with tiny cascades. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 14 x 18in. 
 
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 OCTOBER DAYS 
 
 The alluring warmth of Indian summer time tones 
 this attractive canvas, which, instead of the deep seclu- 
 sion Mr. Smith usually selects for his landscape themie, 
 seems to be near one of those fine old ‘“ hermitage’? re- 
 treats, tired fashion is choosing for repose. The full, 
 glowing warmth of the poetic season is here—reflected 
 in the river from thelow-lying gold and violet sky and 
 nestling in the foliage of the splendid group of trees, 
 dense green, soft green, gold and dark, breech-like line, 
 illuminating the curving road and winding the well. 
 kept homestead at the right, between which and the 
 road is a red-clad figure. The herbiage is rich, harvest- 
 time green 
 
 Size of Canvas, 12x I6in. 
 
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 A LOWERY DAY IN OCTOBER 
 
 Another canvass full of the inspiration that made 
 bold the Barbizon Masters. Overhead, a superb sky of 
 intense blue, low down over which float clouds of pur- 
 ple-grey. In the distance, a wondrous, glowing, golden 
 For the entire middle centre a magnificent group of 
 oaks in whose shade pauses a single figure, clad in deep 
 red and blue. ‘To the left of the trees passes a couutry 
 road, between moss-clad, verdure-crowned, grey rock- 
 dotted slopes bathed in richest sunlight. 
 
 Size of Canvas, 14 x 18in. 
 
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