Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on artist board, signed at lower right and inscribed
"Nelly Bly Ballard / 1925 / Dale's Lake / Caswell Farm / John Burroughs Home", also inscribed the following to verso:
Nelly Bly Ballard / Dale's Lake / Roxbury, NY / Aug - Sept 1966", in contemporary gilt frame.
Frame dimensions 17 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.
From the collection of Michael and Nancy Norton, New London, North Carolina Nellie Bly Ballard was a landscape folk artist whose style within her sphere of the Catskills, New York - where she lived and practiced - has been compared to that of Grandma Moses.
Overall very good condition; some light surface grime upper right.