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Charles Henry Phelps
John P. East
Telephone Broad 778

Phelps & East
Counsellors at Law
30 Broad Street, New York

[H]ERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1917
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ART SALES AND S
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RANGER PICTURES FETCH &77,305; AVERAGE IS $513
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Mr. Harry S. Harkness Pays $4,100, Highest Price of Sale, for "Edge of the Village."
Distinguished American artists and men and women of society seated in the assembly room of the American Art Galleries, No. 6 East Twenty-third street, last night, saw eighty-one paintings, compromising the second part of the collection of the late Henry Ward Ranger, sold for $42,865, bringing the total receipts for the entire collection up to $77,305. Of this amount 129 pictures by Mr. Ranger himself yielded $66,240, or an average of about $513 a picture. The latter figure constitutes a record in this country for a sale of this number of pictures by a single artist. The last high record was $337, hung up at the sale of the Wyant collection some twenty-five years ago.
Harry S. Harkness paid the highest price of the final session and of the sale when he acquired, for $4100, "The Edge of the Village," one of the last pictures painted by Mr. Ranger, in 1916. It represents a New England town seen from a distance through a vista formed by two gnarled oaks. Two Ranger favorites, "Twin Trees" and Misty Afternoon, Rathburn Pond," went for $2,500 each, the former to C. A. Black and the latter to H. A. Rudkin. There was hearty applause when these pictures were placed on the stand. A similar study in the artist's favorite color trinity, blue, green and yellow, known as "Long Pond," was purchased by C. J. McDonough for $2,075.
As announced at the time of his death last election day, the proceeds of this sale and other funds raised from the dispersal of Mr. Ranger's property will be devoted to the purchase of pictures by American artists, which are to be hung in important galleries throughout the country, the National Gallery, at Washington, getting the preference.
Other paintings by Mr. Ranger sold for more than $200, the new owners' names and the prices paid were:-

"River and the Trees," C.J. McDonough $375
"San Juan, Porto Rico," L.E. Ellis 250
"Rock Terrace," C.A. Carlisle 240
"Windy Skies," John C. Payne 800
"November," A.M. Geddes 220
"A New England Port," O. Bernet, agent 230
"Woodland Landscape," C.A. Carlisle 250
"Seaside Meadows," C.J. McDonough 210
"Among the Birches," W.C. Runyon 210
"The River Mason's Island," L.E. Ellis 410
"Through the Woods," J.B. Clark 300
"The Brook," John C. Payne 250
"Old Sand Road," C.J. McDonough 410
"Marine; Clearing Off," R. Hosea 310
"Illows in Springtime," John Levy 400
"Landscape and Stream," J.S. Isidor 450
"Landscape-Along the Coast," Dr. R.B. Reitz 350
"A Good Harbor," E.G. Chapin 210
"Clouds and Sunshine," Dr. M.L. Rheim 400
"Autumn's Glow," W.W. Seaman, agent 425
"Noank, Connecticut," Dr. R.B. Reitz 500
"The Arched Trees," Mr. Franklin 625
"Autumn Wood and Interior," J.C. Evans 470
"Trees and Meadow," W.W. Seaman, agent 900
"Hilltop Road," C.J. McDonough 500
"Early Spring," Estate of Ralph H. Ensiger 1,600
"Early Morning on the Sound," George Broadhurst 600
"Bow Bridge, Moonlight," George H. Ainsile 400
"The Wood Lot," M. Knoedler & Co 1,100
"The Path Throughout the Woods," George H. Ainsile 525
"Through the Trees," B. Arkell 975
"Before the Daylight is Gone," John Levy 250
"October Landscape," John Levy 550
"The Quarry Hill," W.C. Thompson 650
"A New England Church," Rohlfs Galleries 850
"The White Farmhouse," Rohlfs Galleries 500
"Heavy Clouds," John Levy 675
"Clouds and Sunshine: Peconnuck Valley," E. Silver 550
"The Barns," H.P. Wright 825
"Moonlight and Starshine," O. Bernet, agent 1,825
"Salt Meadows," F.L. Montague 775
"Cornfield: Lyme, Conn.", Holland Galleries 880
"Moonlight," Frederick Loeser & Co 875
Sunset on the Mystic River, Conn.", Abraham & Straus 600
"Sunrise on the Noank," Dr. M.C. Rheim 625
"Long Point Marsh," W.C. Runyon 575
"Across the Sound," Mr. Franklin 625

Sale of Manchu Jewelry.
Unusual old chains and necklaces in carved stones and ivory from the collection of Manchu jewelry, consigned by Frederick Moore, of New York and Peking, were the features of the sale in the Anderson Galleries, Madison avenue and Fortieth street, yesterday afternoon. F.A. Mammond Paid the top price, $70, for a long ivory chain; R.B. Hatch gave $62.50 for a turquoise matrix chain, and A.A. Larence acquired one of cloudy amber beads for $52.50, bringing the total to date up to $3,938.50