Lot 840 | WILLIAM TYLEE RANNEY (1813-1857) First Fish of the Season signed "William Tylee Ranney" and dated "1849" in the bow of the boat--oil on
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canvas 27 x 40 in. PROVENANCE Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Private Collection, Colorado J.N. Bartfield Art Galleries, Inc., New York LITERATURE H.T. Tuckerman, "Book of the Artists, American Artist Life" (New York, 1867), p. 630 E. Strahan, ed., "Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America," vol. III (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1880), pp. 92, 108 F. Grubar, "William Ranney, Painter of the Early West" (New York, 1962), p. 47, no. 96 RELATED LITERATURE M.E. Thistlethwaite, "William Tylee Ranney: East of the Mississippi" (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum, 1991), pp. 32-39 E.C. Pennington, "Passage and Progress in the Works of William Tylee Ranney" (Augusta, Georgia: Morris Museum of Art, 1993).

