On Saturday, November 10, 2018, Rago will present works by notable New Hope School artists, locally consigned and never before offered for sale at auction. These fresh-to-market works come from some of Pennsylvania’s most celebrated Impressionists, including Walter Emerson Baum, Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge, Nancy Maybin Ferguson, John Fulton Folinsbee, George W. Sotter, and Robert Spencer. The star of this segment of the American and European Fine Art Auction is a large, untitled winter night scene by George W. Sotter. It depicts the artist’s studio from above: an angle which he would never have seen but could only have imagined. This is a Sotter masterwork, a keen demonstration of the artist’s ability to make the darkness light, gilding a cold, blue winter night with the glow of the moon. Another splendid landscape comes from Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge, who settled in Lumberville, Bucks County, PA in 1920 and joine
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