November 21, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day Two Featuring The Benny Long Collection
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HARDY CO., VIRGINIA (NOW WEST VIRGINIA) FOLK ART HUNT DRAWING, graphite and ink on paper, an elaborate and detailed depiction among rolling hills, the foreground featuring a hunter on horseback and his 12 dogs in pursuit of a buck, the background featuring five hunters and their dogs at their downed buck, and ten other hunters on horseback in various stages of pursuing a scattering of running deer. Four inked four-line hunting verses are below the image, flanked by "Old Fields, Hardy County, Virginia / Drawn by Alfred M. Grime" to the right. Housed under glass in a modern frame. Circa 1830. 16 3/4" x 21 1/2" sight, 19 3/4" x 24" OA.
Catalogue Note: The identity of the artist of this work has not been established. The Old Fields area is home to several stately Federal brick houses, including Willow Wall, which overlooks the south branch of the Potomac River. Constructed in 1811/1812, it is a two-story, U-shaped, 38-room brick dwelling in the Georgian-Tidewater style. The center hall features its original French hand-printed wallpaper, "The Passing of the Chase," featuring hunters and their dogs chasing deer. Willow Wall was known for entertaining travelers, so it is possible that the house's wallpaper inspired the artist to execute this drawing.
Good as-found condition, tear from the right edge into the center, wrinkles and small creases, scattered spotting and stains/soiling, ink loss to the first two lines of the left verse.
From the collection of Benny Long, New Market, VA.
Sotheby's - Important Americana, The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Deyerle, 5/27/1995, lot 714.
R. E. Crawford Antiques, Manakin-Sabot, VA.
Colwill-McGehee, Baltimore, MD.
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