Image of the Day, March 11, 2012

Estimated to sell at between $400,000. and $600,000:

Frank Tenney Johnson, When All’s Quiet, 1930, oil on canvas. 24 x 30 in. Credit: Scottsdale Art Auction“The long hours of life on the range composed Frank Tenney Johnson’s palette.  The night is azure, the night is indigo, the night is aqua, the night is cerulean, the night is a deep, deep turquoise, the night is ultramarine, the night is Prussian blue. Blue … blue … blue. Blue was the lullaby of the night that sung Frank Tenney Johnson to sleep.” – Scottsdale Art Auction, 2012

Frank Tenney Johnson, Packing In, 1931, oil on board, 24 x 18 in. Credit: Scottsdale Art AuctionEstimated to sell at between $200,000. and $300,000.

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Painting of the Day, October 30, 2011