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THBPercival Rosseau (1859-1937), Carolina Sandhills
Lot 290
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
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Pembroke, MA 02359
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Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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Percival Rosseau (1859-1937)
Carolina Sandhills
signed "Rosseau" lower right
oil on canvas, 14 by 18 in.
signed and titled on Lyme Art Association label on back
Titled "Carolina Sandhills" by the artist, this atmospheric work depicts eight wild turkeys in the longleaf pine forest ecosystem distinctive to areas of North and South Carolina. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, when bird hunting on the site was in its heyday, Rosseau painted from a cottage at the fabled property of Overhills, a private hunt and country club with stables and kennels in Cumberland County, North Carolina. In time Overhills became a private estate for the Rockefeller family before being acquired by the U.S. Army. The land is now part of Fort Bragg.
Although quail hunting dominated, in "Overhills Oral History," Andrew Jackson Sr., son of a dog handler, recalled, "Daddy took them [Harry G. Blagden and W. Averell Harriman] turkey hunting. They liked to turkey hunt. The best turkey hunting was over in the Fort Bragg area. There used to be a lot of turkeys. That was on the side of the river of Fort Bragg. They had some special dogs for turkeys. That was a different dog. They didn't use those for quail shooting because your turkey hunting is a little bit different from quail shooting."
As indicated by the label on the back, Rosseau was a member of the Lyme Art Association and exhibited with them regularly. When not traveling the country to paint sporting scenes, he lived in Lyme, Connecticut.
Literature: Jeffrey D. Irwin and Kaitlin O'Shea, "Overhills Oral History," Fort Bragg, NC, 2009, p. 132.Please email condition report requests to leah@copleyart.com.Condition
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