Payne Fine Arts

The Charleston Collection: Paintings

Will Hession (American 20th C)

Robert Barnwell Rhett House

oil on canvas board

14 x 10 inches

signed lower right and dated '51

Inscription verso partially obscured by tape. Hession also worked in Louisville, Kentucky, and was a friend of Fontaine Talbot Fox III, famous for the Toonerville Trolley comic strip.

$850


Church Street

oil on canvas

unsigned, c. 1890

14 x 9 inches

The trees are in bloom as a young girl in a white dress appears on Church Street in this early unsigned painting. The street appears unpaved, and there are no sidewalks. Other Charlestonians can be seen farther down the street.

$2200


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