Swann Galleries has announced highlights from their annual sale of American Art, featuring original works by masters from the nineteenth- through twenty-first centuries. Watercolors, paintings and sculptures by noted practitioners of American schools will be crossing the block on Thursday, June 15, marking the end of the house’s successful spring season. The sale is replete with desirable landscape paintings, including William Glackens` vernal The Beach, Isle Adam, 1925-26. Across the bright canvas— one of the artist`s most significant works from the mid-1920s –bathers relax at a popular locale outside of Paris. The rich, brilliantly lit colors, short brushstrokes, liveliness and motion showcase the artist’s distinctly American vein of Impressionism (estimate: $500,000 to $800,000). Further early twentieth-century landscapes include Joseph Kleitsch`s
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