Michael Hall Antiques

Tempera on Masonite. 18”x 24”. Frame: 21"x 26 3/4". Title: Clarksville, Tenn. " I'm the only one of us children who stayed. " Title 2: Clarksville, Tennessee- Someday I might leave this place..."

Bill Sawyer was a self taught Nashville artist who started painting when stationed in France. His first exhibition was in Nashville in May of 1959 and he went on to have one-man shows at Daniel Orr’s Gallery in San Diego, the Little Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the Parthenon in Nashville. Joseph Patterson, then the president of the American Association of Museums, arranged for a show of Sawyer’s work at the Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York in 1964. Sawyer was the first untrained artist to have a one-man show at the gallery, and his second show there, in 1966.

Signed lower left. Oil on board. 16" x 20". Gilded frame: 20 1/2" x 24 1/2".

Signed and dated June, 29th, 1993. Numbered 29.000.916. "I find image of Jesus on back side of Elvis." Height : 11 3/4” . Width 10 1/2" Mixed media on plywood.

Provenance: Purchased directly from Howard Finster, July 18th, 1993 by Chuck Lurker of Franklin, TN.

HOWARD FINSTER (AMERICAN, 1916-2001) Coca Cola Bottle.

Signed and dated June, 24th, 1993. Numbered 29.000.858. Height : 34 1/8”. Width 10 3/8" Mixed media on plywood.

Howard Finster combines religious messages with imagery from popular culture like this bottle of Coca-Cola.

Provenance: Purchased directly from Howard Finster, July 18th, 1993 by Chuck Lurker of Franklin, TN. ( inscribed on back)

A Man Reading. Pencil on woven paper. 4 7/8” x 3 1/8”. Drawn 1900-1901. Included and pictured in the Catalogue Raisonne. James McNeill Whistler, Drawing, Pastels and Watercolors A Catalogue Raisonne by Margaret F. MacDonald. Page 589, Fig. 1638.

Provenance: The artist’s studio at the time of is death in 1903 and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Miss R. Birnie Philip. It was removed from a sketch book and sold to Colnaghi, London dealers, on May 11th 1956 then sold to Bournmouth dealer Alistair Matthews who sold it to a Nashville collector on January 22nd, 1958.

“ This may be a portrait of Ronald Murray Philip. It looks as if he was reading by firelight. The drawing is quite elaborate, for all its size. Whistler worked first with soft diagonal lines pencil lines, and then with a very fine point poked in to it for details. The lines were cross hatched and lightly rubbed. There a loose and weak lines around the body. The soft and grainy effect is typical of Whister’s later drawings” . Source: James McNeill Whistler, Drawing, Pastels and Watercolors A Catalogue Raisonne by Margaret F. MacDonald.

Still Life of Corn, Oil on board, 22 x 27 1/2. Signed lower right: A. Montgomery. Original frame.

Alfred Montgomery was born in Logan County, Illinois, and moved to Bloomington in 1893 from Mason City, Iowa. He was known as the Farmer Artist or the Corn Artist and considered by the Lakeview Museum in Peoria as Bloomington’s best-known painter. He achieved renown in artistic circles for his paintings of farm animals and still lifes featuring corn. He settled in Los Angeles in 1906, spent the next decade in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died in Los Angeles in 1922.

Signed lower right. Titled and dated on back. 1974. Oil on Board: 12"x9". Frame: 16 3/4" x 13 1/2".

Ignatz Sahula-Dycke was a painter, illustrator and designer. Born 1900 in Bohemia, Austria. Studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1911-1918. U.S. Navy 1918-1919. Life member Art Institute of Chicago.

Navajo Mother and Child. Dated 1977. Oil on board. 11" x 14". Signed lower left. Frame: 15" x 18". Ignatz Sahula-Dycke was a painter, illustrator and designer. Born 1900 in Bohemia, Austria. Studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1911-1988. U.S. Navy 1918-1919. Life member Art Institute of Chicago.

February by Grant Wood. (1891-1942) Original Lithograph, Signed lower right. Geo. C. Miller, lithographer. Released May 1940. Edition 250 plus 10 sent to the artist. Image size: 8 15/16” x 11 13/16”. Paper size: 11 3/4” x 15 13/16”. (paper has original deckled edge.) Frame: 18 5/8” x 22 5/8”. Between 1937 and 1941, Grant Wood created 19 lithographs that were published by Associated American Artist (A.A.A.), a private gallery and publisher. A.A.A had a unique approach to marketing, offering printed images of American life in large editions (usually 250 prints) at reasonable prices via mail order and through regional stores such as Marshall Field’s in Chicago. The Lithograph February was the 15th lithograph released.

Portrait of George Washington

After the original by Gilbert Stuart.

19th century. Oil on canvas. 28 1/8” x 22 3/16”.

Period early 19th century frame: 36” x 25”.

This painting is a very close copy of Washington's head and shoulders as depicted in the full-length version of the "Lansdowne" portrait that is owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The direction of Washington's gaze indicates that this painting is copied from the Lansdowne type full-length, and not the more well known Athenaeum type. In the full-length Lansdowne type he looks off to the side; in the Atheneum and its replicas and copies, he looks directly at the viewer.

There are three versions of the Lansdowne; the others are at the National Portrait Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum.  This painting appears to be copied from the PAFA painting because it is very close in every detail not only to the face and shoulders, but also to minor aspects like the shape of the shirt ruffle and the queue ribbon.  Also, importantly, the PAFA version was on view at the academy from 1811, a bequest from Pennsylvania Senator William Bingham, who died in 1804.  Bingham was the person who commissioned the original Lansdowne (the painting now in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery). 

Provenance: From a Washington D.C. Estate in 1909. Purchased at auction in New York City in 1909 by Santa Monica, California art dealer J.F. MacCarthy, There is an article in the Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 15th, 1933 that talks about Mr. MacCarthy and the Washington Portrait. By descent to Miss Mary MacCarthy who loaned the painting in 1942 to The Society of Liberal Arts, Joslyn Memorial Omaha, Nebraska through the courtesy of Father De Persio of Bellevue, Nebraska. The painting transferred ownership to Father De Persio (1916-1990) then to his brother Dr. John D. De Persio (1914-2002) who sold the portrait to the current owner. Dr. John D. De Perio’s parents were Dominick and Martha McCarthy DePersio.

Condition: Very good, painting was under glass for a good portion or the 20th century. Examined under black light, upper left corner has touch up. (visible with the naked eye due to varnish being dryer than the rest of the canvas.

Plate 89,. Printed and published by R. Havell, Printed 1832. First edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). . Depicting a male and female resting upon a shrub with red berries. J WHATMAN 1832 paper watermark. Housed in a contemporary gilt wood frame. Plate - 19 1/8" H x 13 7/8" W. Sight - 22 7/8" H x 15 3/4" W. Sheet - 37 3/4" H x 25 1/2" W. Framed - 44 3/4" H x 37 3/4" W.

Exhibited, The Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2006.

Landscape , oil on canvas . 20” x 23”. Lyzon frame.

Baker was from Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee where he majored in Philosophy.

In 1938, aged sixteen, Baker met another Winchester artist, Avery Handly (1913-1958). Though some nine years older, Handly helped shape his perceptions, criticized, and shared his insights in literature and music. Through his encouragement and mentoring Baker chose a career in the arts. He later studied art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent four years at the Atlanta Art Institute, obtaining the degrees of B.F.A., 1952, and M.F.A., 1953. There he was rated “the star” of the school and awarded the Ellen S. Booth scholarship for advanced studies in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He later studied at the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs.

In 1955 Baker came to Nashville, Tennessee to teach art at Watkins Institute. He later taught at the University of Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Tennessee State University. Besides being a popular art teacher, Baker continued to create. He expressed himself in many different styles ranging from touches of cubism and expressionism to impressionistic scenes sometimes bordering on pointillism.

In 1960 Baker was honored as Nashville Artist of the Year by the Davidson County Business and Professional Women's Club for his work in organizing a memorial exhibition for his longtime friend and mentor, Avery Handly.

Baker won numerous honors for his work and exhibited at the University of the South, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950; Virginia Intermont Competition, 1953; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 1953; University of Tennessee, 1958; Tennessee State Fair, 1958, 1959; Vanderbilt University, 1962; and the Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. But perhaps his most memorable work is the 63 stained glass windows he designed for the Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library and Archives in Nashville.

His work is widely represented in private collections as well as the permanent collections at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Southern Methodist University.

In 1985 he retired from teaching and died May 16, 1994. He is buried in the Baker family plot in Winchester.

In 1996 a memorial retrospective of Baker’s work was held at Belmont University in Nashville.Provenance, purchased directly from artist.

Thomas Campbell (Active Tennessee, 1834-1914) oil on canvas possibly East Tennessee mountain landscape painting depicting cattle crossing a steam. Signed "T. Campbell" lower right. Canvas: 14" H x 10” W. Framed: 20 3/4”H x 16 3/4” W. Campbell immigrated to the United States from England at age 19. He founded the art department at Maryville College in 1902 and headed it until his death. His paintings were exhibited regionally and won several prizes and medals.

Texas Landscape.

Oil on Canvas. 24” x 36” Customer made leaf frame made by Art Center, Corpus Christy, Texas. 31 3/4” x 43 3/4”.

Signed l.l. Palmer Chrisman,

Palmer Chrisman was born in 1913, after his service in World War II he returned to Texas where he became a Physician and began painting, studying under Porfirio Salinas. His paintings depict the Texas Hill Country, President Lyndon B. Johnson was a patron of Chrisman and is said to have ordered 30 of his paintings to be given as Christmas Gifts from the White House. (Source: Ask Art)

ca. 1856. Oil on canvas 25" x 36"

It is believed this painting was intended for the artist himself and completed in Damascus. 

Edward Troye was a Swiss-born American painter of Thoroughbred horses, he was born on July 12, 1808, Lausanne, Switzerland and died July 25, 1874, Georgetown, KY

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Spring Hill CollegeProvenance: Collection of Charles Cort. 

Watercolor on Paper 20 1/2” x 27”. Signed and dated 1957. l.r. Frame: 24” x 30 1/2”.

Baker was from Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee where he majored in Philosophy.
In 1938, aged sixteen, Baker met another Winchester artist, Avery Handly (1913-1958). Though some nine years older, Handly helped shape his perceptions, criticized, and shared his insights in literature and music. Through his encouragement and mentoring Baker chose a career in the arts. He later studied art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent four years at the Atlanta Art Institute, obtaining the degrees of B.F.A., 1952, and M.F.A., 1953. There he was rated “the star” of the school and awarded the Ellen S. Booth scholarship for advanced studies in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He later studied at the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs.
In 1955 Baker came to Nashville, Tennessee to teach art at Watkins Institute. He later taught at the University of Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Tennessee State University. Besides being a popular art teacher, Baker continued to create. He expressed himself in many different styles ranging from touches of cubism and expressionism to impressionistic scenes sometimes bordering on pointillism.
In 1960 Baker was honored as Nashville Artist of the Year by the Davidson County Business and Professional Women's Club for his work in organizing a memorial exhibition for his longtime friend and mentor, Avery Handly.
Baker won numerous honors for his work and exhibited at the University of the South, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950; Virginia Intermont Competition, 1953; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 1953; University of Tennessee, 1958; Tennessee State Fair, 1958, 1959; Vanderbilt University, 1962; and the Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. But perhaps his most memorable work is the 63 stained glass windows he designed for the Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library and Archives in Nashville.
His work is widely represented in private collections as well as the permanent collections at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Southern Methodist University.
In 1985 he retired from teaching and died May 16, 1994. He is buried in the Baker family plot in Winchester.
In 1996 a memorial retrospective of Baker’s work was held at Belmont University in Nashville.

Provenance: Purchased directly from Gus Baker by his friends and patrons, Whitworrh Stokes and Lucy Brock Stokes in 1957.

Watercolor on artist board. Frame: 23 5/8” x 18 1/2”.

Oil on canvas, Dated: 9- 1975. Canvas 9”x12” Frame: 13 1/2” x 16 1/2”. Signed lower right.

Bush Brick Yard, Nashville 1949. 8 3/4” x 12”. Frame 17” x 20”. Watercolor on paper painting depicting the Bush Brick Yard, east of the Cumberland River near Jefferson street. . This scene is likely the old plant number 2 located at the end of 2nd avenue close to where Bearded Iris Brewery in Germantown is located now. The round domed structure in the center is likely the brick kiln flanked by a large chimney and a multistory warehouse.. Signed upper right "McC Partee". Housed in a silvered wood frame.

Bush Brick Company (founded in 1867 by Confederate veteran Major W.G. Bush in 1867) and T. L. Herbert and Sons, from 1911 to 1961. The family business made bricks used for the construction of many buildings on the campus of Vanderbilt University as well as the Maxwell House Hotel, the Downtown Presbyterian Church and the Tulip Street Methodist Church.

Watercolor on paper : 14 1/3” x 10 1/2”housed in a 19th century gold leaf frame: 15 3/4” x 11 3/4”.
Julia Pope Moss was born in 1842 in Oglethorpe County and came to Athens to attend the Lucy Cobb Institute. She became principal of the Grove School. She did not marry. She died in 1931.

There is a miniature on ivory portrait of Miss. Moss in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art painted in 1926 by Lucy May Stanton, (American, 1876-1931).

$850

Oil on tin, signed Coffin. Frame carved Nelson Co. KY.

Title: The Deserter.

Oil en grisaille (painting executed entirely in shades of gray or another neutral grayish color) on artists’ board. 18 3/4” x 24 3/4”. Frame: 24 1/2” x 30 5/8”.

Provenance: Private collection, purchased from Robert M. Hicklin Jr. Inc.

Signed l.l.

William Gilbert Gaul was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Upon the death of his maternal uncle, Gaul inherited land near Fall Creek Falls in Van Buren county Tennessee. Gaul split his time between Fall Creek Falls and New York City. He later taught at Cumberland Female College inMcMinnville, Tennessee. He opened a studio in Nashville in 1905.

$ 4,800

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ca. 1850’s. Oil on canvas. 25”x30” Original Tulip poplar stretcher. Artist: Attributed to Washington Bogart Cooper.

Male nude in a courtyard.

Oil on board: 18” x 22”. Signed and dated l.r. Frame: 26” x 30”.

Baker was from Winchester, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee where he majored in Philosophy.
In 1938, aged sixteen, Baker met another Winchester artist, Avery Handly (1913-1958). Though some nine years older, Handly helped shape his perceptions, criticized, and shared his insights in literature and music. Through his encouragement and mentoring Baker chose a career in the arts. He later studied art at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent four years at the Atlanta Art Institute, obtaining the degrees of B.F.A., 1952, and M.F.A., 1953. There he was rated “the star” of the school and awarded the Ellen S. Booth scholarship for advanced studies in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He later studied at the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs.
In 1955 Baker came to Nashville, Tennessee to teach art at Watkins Institute. He later taught at the University of Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and Tennessee State University. Besides being a popular art teacher, Baker continued to create. He expressed himself in many different styles ranging from touches of cubism and expressionism to impressionistic scenes sometimes bordering on pointillism.
In 1960 Baker was honored as Nashville Artist of the Year by the Davidson County Business and Professional Women's Club for his work in organizing a memorial exhibition for his longtime friend and mentor, Avery Handly.
Baker won numerous honors for his work and exhibited at the University of the South, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950; Virginia Intermont Competition, 1953; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 1953; University of Tennessee, 1958; Tennessee State Fair, 1958, 1959; Vanderbilt University, 1962; and the Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. But perhaps his most memorable work is the 63 stained glass windows he designed for the Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library and Archives in Nashville.
His work is widely represented in private collections as well as the permanent collections at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Southern Methodist University.
In 1985 he retired from teaching and died May 16, 1994. He is buried in the Baker family plot in Winchester.
In 1996 a memorial retrospective of Baker’s work was held at Belmont University in Nashville.

Watercolor on board. A variation of his Punch and Judy puppet scenes.

20 x 16"

Werner Wildner was born in Germany, he moved to Detroit with his family as a child and, as a teenager, to Nashville. He studied art briefly at the Mienzinger Art School in Detroit. He returned to Nashville to practice commercial art, but by the mid-1950s had decided to pursue his own art career. Wildner met with critical and commercial success after a 1962 exhibit of his art (at what is now known as Cheekwood).

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American, Texas.

Dated 1970

Untiled, Oil on canvas board.

12” x 16”

Price: $ 4,800

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Locust Hill also know as the Hays-Kiser House, Antioch Tennessee. 

Oil on board 

18 inches by 24 inches. 

Locust Hillis one of the earliest brick homes built in Davidson county, the master bedroom has the finest carved, gouged, paintined and grain paneled wall in Middle Tennessee. Built in the late 18th/early 19th century by Charles Hays. 

Werner Wildner was born in Germany, he moved to Detroit with his family as a child and, as a teenager, to Nashville.  He studiedart briefly at the Mienzinger Art School in Detroit.  He returned to Nashville to practice commercial art, but by the mid-1950s had decided to pursue his own art career. Wildner met with critical and commercial success after a 1962 exhibit of his art (at what is now known as Cheekwood).

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Taos Pueblo, Taos, New Mexico. 

Watercolor on paper. 

19 x 27 inches. 

Signed l.r. Ragon. 

Inscribed on back: “Taos Pueblo Taos New Mexico by Imogene Ragon”

Original Frame.

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Boy
Pastel on paper. 19 x 8 inches.
Signed lower left Brantley Smith, '
Frame:

Brantley Smith studied art in New York at the William Merritt Chase School of Art. Early in his career, Smith had studios in New York City and Newport, R.I. During the winters of the late 1930s and early 1940s, Smith had studios in Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida. He taught art at Winchester and Jasper, Tennessee.

Tennessee/Virginia, 1915-2009, 

"Foothills, Winter", signed lower right "Wm A. Youngblood", casein on illustration board, , modern wood frame,

15 x 30 inches.

Casein is a quick-drying, aqueous medium using a milk-based binding agent, and is one of the most durable mediums known to man. Casein cave paintings have been discovered in Asia, and later, the medium was used by Byzantine, Roman and Renaissance artists including the Old Masters.

Because Casein has an exceptional integrity of color and always dries to a perfect matte finish, it is unexcelled for art reproduction. The velvety matte finish can also be buffed to a satin sheen or varnished to produce a resemblance to oils. Over time, Casein pigments become resistant to moisture and as history has proven, the medium has a durability and permanence which has easily stood the test of time

15 x 30 inches

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Heavy impasto and resin on board. ca. 1960’s. Original frame. Witherspoon was born in Columbia, Tennessee in 1921. He moved to Nashville and opened up an art studio. He had one man exhibit at the Parthenon in Nashville in 1963.

Richland District , South Carolina. 

Oil on canvas. 

ca. 1840.

Colonel John English was a Doctor and planter of Richland District, South Carolina. In 1843 he married Maria Elizabeth Preston Means of Fairfield District, niece of Governor John Hugh Means.

Provenance:

Robert Wills Sturdivant, Jr. (1948-2014) from his mother

Elisabeth Nininger Sturdivant, (1921-  ) from her mother 

Maria Means English (1890-1951)

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Landscape/River Scene. Watercolor on paper. 24 1/4" x 18 1/4". Signed l.l. J.B. SWORD.   Provenance: Purchased by Mr. Raynor around 1875, he lived 4465 Frankfort Ave. in Philadelphia.

Eight pages of dolls/clothing. Jensen Publishing Company, ©1946. Front/back covers are thin cardboard and each has pair of dolls for Grand Ole Opry stars Ernest and Justin Tubbs. Ernest Tubb, nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an singer/songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. Justin Tubb was his oldest son. Book is unused w/all four paperdolls.

American mid-19th century oval gilded frame, in exceptional original condition. Minor cracking and rubbing expected with age.
Overall dimensions : 31 1/2” x 27 1/2”.
Maximum artwork size 24 1/2”x 20 1/2”.

Exceptional gilded 19th century frame.
Overall dimensions 29 1/4” x 35 1/4”. Maximum artwork/ mirror size : 18 7/8” x 24 7/8”.

Paul Lancaster Landscape. Oil on canvas mounted on mat  board. 7" x 9". Frame: 9" x 11”.

Wooded scene by Nashville Artist Paul Lancaster. 

Signed lower right. Purchased directly from the artist by a local collector who was friends with the artist. 

Paul Lancaster was born in Lobelville,Tennessee in 1930 and grew up in Nashville. Without any art education, Lancaster began to paint about 1959 and gained increasing recognition. His works are in significant private collections and numerous permanent collections such as the Smithsonian, American Visionary Art Museum, Reece, Parthenon, Parrish and Hickory Art Museums and University of Virginia collection . Lancaster's early works had primitive qualities and were full of fantasy. His techniques grew exceptionally so that many cannot believe he is self taught. He worked with most all media available to the painter and even taught himself how to create etchings. His graphics work proved significant for it is in his etchings that his great facility for the drawn line and subtle color could be so fully accomplished.

Paul Lancaster Landscape. Oil on canvas mounted on board. 

Frame: 19" x 23". Under conservation glass. 

A loverly creek scene by Nashville Artist Paul Lancaster. 

Signed lower left. Purchased directly from the artist by a local collector who was friends with the artist. 

Paul Lancaster was born in Lobelville,Tennessee in 1930 and grew up in Nashville. Without any art education, Lancaster began to paint about 1959 and gained increasing recognition. His works are in significant private collections and numerous permanent collections such as the Smithsonian, American Visionary Art Museum, Reece, Parthenon, Parrish and Hickory Art Museums and University of Virginia collection . Lancaster's early works had primitive qualities and were full of fantasy. His techniques grew exceptionally so that many cannot believe he is self taught. He worked with most all media available to the painter and even taught himself how to create etchings. His graphics work proved significant for it is in his etchings that his great facility for the drawn line and subtle color could be so fully accomplished.

Washington Girard ( TN 1873-1931) Sycamore Creek, Cheatham Co. Oil on board 15” x 21”. Original frame : 21” x 26 1/2”. 

Inscribed on back: “ From Memory, Sycamore Creek, Cheatham co. Tenn. Washington Girard.”