Edwin Willard Deming

Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942), "Children of the Lodge" watercolor and gouache on board. Sight: 14.25"H x 22.25"W; Frame: 23"H x 31"W. Signed lower right, "E.W. Deming with insignia". A multi-faceted artist best known for his depictions of Native Americans and wildlife. He received training at the Art Students League and spent a year in Paris where he studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre. In 1887 on his first trip to the American West he visited the Apache and Pueblo Indians in the Southwest, and the Umatillas in Oregon. In 1893, Deming and fellow artist DeCost Smith spent time among the Sioux and Crow Indians to write and illustrate about life among these people for Outing magazine.

Lot 360 Edwin Willard Deming (American, 1860-1942) View of Native Americans on Horseback Signed and dedicated "To our Friend Evangeline...EW DEMING" l.r., identified on a label affixed to the reverse. Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm), framed. Condition: Retouch, craquelure, minor surface grime. Estimate $4,000-6,000

Lot 28 Edwin Willard Deming American, 1860-1942 (i) Raccoon in Moonlight Signed with the artist's device and EW Deming (lr) Ink wash on paper heightened with white Sight 6 1/4 x 7 inches (ii) Bear and Cubs Gouache on card 3 3/4 x 5 inches C Property of a Palm Beach Collector Estimate $1,000-1,500 Paper is lightly toned. There is light craquelure in the workwith the Raccoon. Works not examined out of frames. Works appearlaid down to secondary support. Any condition statement is given as a courtesy toa client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as astatement of fact. Doyle New York shall have no responsibility forany error or omission. The absence of a condition statement doesnot imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely freefrom wear and tear, imperfections or the effects ofaging.

Lot 34 Edwin Willard Deming American, 1860-1942 (i) Ojibwa Women Gathering Wild Rice Signed EW Deming and titled on the reverse Graphite pencil on paper Sight 4 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches Provenance: Henry P. de Forest (ii) Indian Women Grinding Corn for Santa Anna Signed with the artist's device and initialed EWD

Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942) Dance at San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico signed 'EW Deming' with the artist's device and inscribed indistinctly (lower left) oil on canvas 45¼ x 72½ in. (114.9 x 184.2 cm.) Pre-Lot Text Property of the Montclair Art Museum, sold to benefit the Acquisition Endowment Fund Provenance Mrs. Henry Lang. Gift to the present owner from the above, 1931. Literature Montclair Art Museum, The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, 1977, p. 159, illustrated. M.S. Kushner, A. Anreus, M. Grzesiak and V. Wageman, Three Hundred Years of American Painting: The Montclair Art Museum Collection, New York, 1989, p. 142, no. 122, illustrated. Exhibited Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Varied Visions: The Native American at the Turn of the Century, October 1995-January 1996.