Author: VOLK, Douglas (1856-1935), and VOLK, Marion L. (1859-1925)
Title: Partly-Printed Autograph Document Signed
Description: Ironically, famed Lincoln sculptor Leonard Volk named his son after his mother's cousin: Stephen A. Douglas, who of course debated Abraham Lincoln in their famous 1858 Senate contest; Douglas became a portrait painter and muralist of renown. Marion Larrabee Volk was an artist and instructor at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. The two wed in 1881 and established a summer art colony in western Maine. Partly-Printed ADS, 1p, 6¼" X 2 3/4", New York, NY, 14 June 192[-]. Very good. Check drawn on The Fifth Avenue Bank, filled out in Volk's hand to his wife Marion L. Volk in the amount of $5.00 and signed in full at lower right; on the verso, she boldly endorses it. Printed on pale orange stock, with typical perforation cancellation. An unusual husband-and-wife example. .
Keywords: Art & Architecture
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Title: Partly-Printed Autograph Document Signed
Description: Ironically, famed Lincoln sculptor Leonard Volk named his son after his mother's cousin: Stephen A. Douglas, who of course debated Abraham Lincoln in their famous 1858 Senate contest; Douglas became a portrait painter and muralist of renown. Marion Larrabee Volk was an artist and instructor at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. The two wed in 1881 and established a summer art colony in western Maine. Partly-Printed ADS, 1p, 6¼" X 2 3/4", New York, NY, 14 June 192[-]. Very good. Check drawn on The Fifth Avenue Bank, filled out in Volk's hand to his wife Marion L. Volk in the amount of $5.00 and signed in full at lower right; on the verso, she boldly endorses it. Printed on pale orange stock, with typical perforation cancellation. An unusual husband-and-wife example. .
Keywords: Art & Architecture
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50733
- Book number: 50733
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