Gallery C Private Estate Collections

Gallery C offers, for resale, works from Private Estates and personal collections that we believe would make valuable additions to any serious collection of fine art. Some of the art listed below has never been shown publically before. Gallery C also hosts the annual “Best of North Carolina” exhibition which features work from private estates that was created by artists from or inspired by our State. For more information on these artists and their work visit The Best of North Carolina.

George Bireline (1923 - 2002)


		Torn Canvas (Blount Street Puzzle) Acrylic and Oil on canvas 1977, 28 x 24 inches

Sarah Blakeslee (1912 - 2005)


		Drawing of Francis Speight Graphite 11.75 x 8.75 inches

Robert Broderson (1920 - 1992)


Man with Friends ink on paper 23.5 x 18 inches From the estate of Joan Liberty		32 Drawings With an introduction by Edward Bryant and original paintings by the artist Durham, Duke University Press, 1964
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Joseph Cave (1936 - )


Ballpark Corner oil on canvas, c. 1994 40 x 54 inches	Cyclamen Suite I pastel, c. 1990 9.5 x 12.5 inches	Cyclamen Suite IV pastel, c. 1990 9.5 x 12.5 inches

Ray Ellis (1921 - )


Over the Wall, North Berwick, Scotland oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches, framed, published on page 33 of "The Spririt of Golf, Ray Ellis and Ben Wright, Longstreet Press, Marietta, GA, 1992 SOLD		Hunt in the Valley oil on canvas, c. 1998 36 x 60 inches

Cecelia Hill


		Tabacco Warehouse oil on canvas, 1981 32 x 62 inches

Claude Howell


Mending Nets: Sunny Day serigraph 1976, 21/300, 22 x 27 inches	Mending Nets: Late Afternoon serigraph 1977, 21/300, 22 x 27 inches	Together watercolor 1943, 15 x 19 inches


Mending Nets: Noonday Glare serigraph 1978, 21/300, 22 x 27 inches	Mending Nets: Northeaster serigraph 1979, 21/300, 22 x 27 inches	Weighing Shrimp oil 1980, 50 x 44 inches

Gregory Ivy (1904 - 1985)


		Landscape acrylic & ink, 1943 70 x 48 inches SOLD

Nancy Tuttle May (1904- )


Italian Landscape I acrylic on canvas, c. 1990's 52 x 40 inches		Italian Landscape II acrylic on canvas, c. 1990's 52 x 40 inches

Lawrence Mazzanovich (1872-1959)


		Tryon Mountain oil on canvas, 1930s 21 x 26 inches

Hobson Pittman


Seated Model Pencil Sketch, 1960 7.5 x 9.5 inches From the Estate of Hobson Pittman's niece.		Resting Figure Pencil Sketch, 1965 7 x 10.75 inches From the Estate of Hobson Pittman's niece.

Roger Rittase


		Untitled oil on canvas, 1939 25 x 30 inches

John Adams Spelman (1880-1941)


		The Old Mountain Home Near Big Smokey Mountains oil on canvas, 1924 24 x 27 inches

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (1883-1979)


		Dah etching on paper 4 x 3 inches sold

Original Antique Ancestor Portraits from the Republic and Quing Periods


Chinese Officials and Their Wives ink and color on paper 41 x 34 inches	Portrait of a Man with his First and Second Wife ink and color on paper 55 x 35 inches	Portrait in front of Ancestor Tablets ink and color on paper 60 x 38 inches



	Portrait in Front of Table and Screen ink and color on paper 60 x 38 inches

Chinese Porcelain Tiles


		The Scholar's Garden Huang Kuan-Yin Handpainted porcelain tile in carved frame 29 x 11 inches

Private Estate Collections Artists of the 19th and 20th Century

Private Estate Collections
Artists of the 19th and 20th Century