Appraisal: Jessie Arms Botke Oil Painting, ca. 1940
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Appraisal: Jessie Arms Botke Oil Painting, ca. 1940
Check out Colleene Fesko's appraisal of a Jessie Arms Botke oil painting, ca. 1940, in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: Jessie Arms Botke Oil Painting, ca. 1940
Clip: Season 30 Episode 5 | 2m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out Colleene Fesko's appraisal of a Jessie Arms Botke oil painting, ca. 1940, in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: This painting was owned by my great aunt and uncle.
My great aunt died in 1958.
It was given to my mother and passed on to our family.
We've had it about four or five years.
APPRAISER: Jessie Arms Botke, the artist of your painting, was born in Chicago in the late 19th century, and was well-trained and well-traveled.
She was a painter, she was a muralist, she was a designer, and she was kind of ahead of her time in so many other ways.
They talk about her being very outspoken and marching in the suffragette parades.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: Given the quality and style of it, I think it was probably painted at the height of her career, which would be 1930 to 1950.
She was represented by some of the finest galleries in the United States, so I suspect that it was an expensive painting even when it was acquired.
The painting is oil on board.
It's painted very thinly.
She loved, especially, white peacocks.
She displayed this bird in just such a wonderful way where you could see through the feathers.
The alley going into the background is really quite exceptional, and with the sculptures directing your eye into the painting.
I believe that this alley is a pastiche of great houses.
There's a little Versailles in there, There's a little Crane estate in there.
I don't see it as being attributable to a specific location.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: I really think, and I've spoken with my colleagues, it's one of the best we've seen in a long time.
The combination of the bird, the architecture, the palette is just beautiful.
At auction, I would estimate it between $60,000 and $80,000.
GUEST (softly): Wow.
APPRAISER: Wow.
GUEST: Today would have been my mother's 99th birthday.
APPRAISER: Oh, my gosh.
GUEST: So, it's... APPRAISER: Oh!
She's watching.
GUEST: Thank you.
APPRAISER: Insurance valuation would be $150,000.
GUEST: This makes my day.
My year.
(both laugh)
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