August 2021 Catalogue

Splendid Original Burne-Jones Colored Chalk Drawing 9. BURNE-JONES, Edward. Large original study [“The Sirens”]. No place, 1870. Colored chalks on brown paper, handsomely matted and framed. $16,500. Splendid original chiaroscuro colored chalk drawing, a large preliminary compositional study for The Sirens. Burne-Jones, leading painter and designer of Victorian England and among the most important of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, is best known for his collaborations withWilliamMorris. This work is a preliminary compositional study for The Sirens , which Burne-Jones began to paint in 1870 but, despite many attempts over two decades, was never able to finish. The allegory of shipwreck does, nonetheless, appear in other of his works, including The Voyage to Vineland (stained glass window) and The Holy Grail (tapestry). An accomplished original work, elaborately framed. Scarce Collection Of 11 Mounted Vintage Prints, Photographer George Cantwell’s Turn-Of-The-Century Series On The Puyallup Tribal People Of Washington State 10. CANTWELL, George. Photograph collection [Puyallup Indians]. Everett, Washington, circa 1903. Eleven prints. Vintage brown-toned prints (ten prints, 6 by 8 inches; one oval print, 5-1/2 by 8 inches), each mounted on card stock. $4500. Collection of eleven vintage brown-toned prints of Washington State’s Puyallup tribal people, seen at the turn-of-the-century in an exceptional series by western photographer George Cantwell, with each print captioned in the negative and mounted on distinctive “Cantwell” studio card stock. Photographer George Cantwell worked in the Klondike during the 1890s GoldRush before settling near Puyallup, then Everett, Washington around 1901. During that time, he began photographing the tribal people known as the Puyallup Indians. Prints fresh and bright, handsomely mounted. An outstanding turn-of-the-century photographic series in about-fine condition. F r a m e d ! 2 0 2 1 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s 9 8