E.E. Cummings' Art, p. 3

Watercolor. 11" x 13-1/2". No date. [#034302] $5,500

Oil on cardboard. 6" x 8-3/4". No date. [#034298] $5,500

Oil on wood. 16-1/2" x 10-1/4". No date. [#034301] $5,500

1939. A painting by Cummings of New Hampshire's Mount Chocorua, as seen from Joy Farm, his home in Silver Lake, NH. Unsigned but dated on the verso, in an unknown hand, "Sept 16 '39." Also on the verso: "GBM #830," evidence of having been in one of the catalogs of Cummings' paintings put out by the Gotham Book Mart between the late 1960s and early 1980s, when the bookshop hosted a number of shows of his work and also took a series of exhibitions on the road to museums and galleries around the country. Oil on canvasboard, 16" x 12". [#031582] $5,500

1946-04-30. Oil on canvasboard. 20" x 24". [#034297] $5,500

1947-04. Oil on canvas. 12" x 16". [#031607] $5,500

Watercolor. 18-1/4" x 12". No date. [#033252] $5,500

A vase of wildflowers. Oil on canvas. 11-3/4" x 15-7/8". No date. Written on verso, "M.M." [#031592] $5,500

Oil on canvasboard. 16" x 12". No date. [#034303] $5,500

Watercolor. 18" x 12". No date. [#033247] $5,500

1947-08-12. Oil on canvas. 16" x 12". [#034288] $5,000

Oil on canvasboard. 16" x 12". No date. [#031629] $5,000

Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 18". No date. [#034293] $5,000

Oil on cardboard. 10" x 12". No date. [#034294] $5,000

An evening view from Joy Farm. Oil on canvas. 13-3/4" x 9-3/4". No date. [#031596] $5,000

A landscape painting by Cummings of a colorful tree on the shore of Silver Lake in New Hampshire, where the Cummings family had a summer home. In the background is Mount Chocorua, one of the most frequent subjects of Cummings' artwork. The use of a bright and vivid palette is reminiscent of Matisse, Kandinsky, and the Fauvists, all of whom have been cited as influences on Cummings as an artist. Thematically and as a composition, this image also owes a debt to Cezanne, one of Cummings' great idols as a painter and an influence, as he said, on both his and other Modernist writers' poetry and fiction by virtue of his providing "a new way of seeing things." In Cummings' work one can almost see an echo of Cezanne, with Cummings' frequent and varied depictions of Mount Chocorua echoing Cezanne's repeated returns to Mont Saint-Victoire as a subject for his paintings. 8-3/4" x 11-1/2", oil on cardboard. Painted on the underside of the cover of a box of his typewriter paper. Undated. Edges slightly rough, and a few random water spots on the image; overall very good condition. [#029554] $5,000

1946. Oil on canvasboard. 12" x 16". [#034289] $5,000

Watercolor. 18" x 12". No date. [#031614] $5,000

Mt. Chocorua. Watercolor. 18-1/4" x 12". No date. [#031611] $5,000

1942-04-19. Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 17-1/2". [#034292] $5,000

1939-05-04. Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 14-1/2". [#034287] $5,000

Oil on canvasboard. 12" x 16". No date. [#034286] $5,000

Watercolor. 18" x 12". Signed on back. No date. [#033246] $5,000

Nude woman standing before a mirror, with a single rose on a table in the foreground. Oil on canvas. 12" x 14". Undated. The canvas has been rolled for storage, and there is now one vertical fold evident on the right side; very good. [#036311] $5,000

Watercolor. 12-3/4" x 9-3/4". No date. Signed by Cummings at the lower left with "Pornic" written in his hand on the lower right. Cummings visited Pornic, a seaside village on the French Atlantic coast, and painted a number of outdoor scenes while he was there, frequently of French peasants at their work. This painting was part of an exhibit at the Gotham Book Mart some time in the late '60s or '70s and bears their notation "GBM #412" on verso. Although a prolific painter, Cummings seldom signed his work. [#026723] $5,000

Pencil on paper. 8-1/2" x 10-1/4". No date. [#034283] $5,000

1955. Open window. Oil on canvas. 12" x 16". On verso: March '55. [#031609] $5,000

Oil on canvasboard. 16" x 12". No date. [#034284] $5,000

1960-01-03. Oil on cardboard. 12-1/2" x 8-1/2". Signed by Cummings on the back. [#034290] $5,000

Oil on canvasboard. 12" x 16". No date. [#034285] $5,000

Oil on canvas. 16" x 12". Summer on Chocorua. No date. [#031571] $5,000

Watercolor. 11" x 15". No date. [#034282] $4,900

A sketch of several nudes in interacting motion, with shades of cubism. Charcoal on canvas. 14" x 18". Undated. GBM #922 on verso: Cummings' paintings had several exhibitions at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City in the 1960s-70s. The canvas has been (unevenly) rolled for storage; very good. [#036314] $4,800

1949-10-20. Oil on canvas. 9" x 14". [#031632] $4,500

Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 17-1/4". No date. [#034269] $4,500

1943-02-20. Oil on canvas. 12" x 16". [#034262] $4,500

Oil on canvasboard. 9" x 12". No date. [#034279] $4,500

1945-04-25. Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 12". [#034263] $4,500

1944-11-01. Oil on canvas. 12" x 16". [#031633] $4,500

Oil on canvas. 15" x 20". No date. [#031628] $4,500

1938-07-20. Oil on canvasboard. 10" x 14". [#034273] $4,500

Oil on cardboard. 10-1/2" x 13-3/4". No date. [#034268] $4,500

1962. Oil on canvas. 12" x 16". [#034258] $4,500

1940-09-27. Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 15-1/4". [#034267] $4,500

Oil on wood. 16-1/2" x 9-1/4". No date. [#034276] $4,500

Watercolor. 10-1/2" x 14-1/2". No date. [#034277] $4,500

Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 17-1/2". No date. [#034281] $4,500

Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 17-3/8". No date. [#034259] $4,500

Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 18". No date. [#034271] $4,500

Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 17-1/2". No date. [#034266] $4,500