2   cols. 54b.

W. Lester Stevens, landscape, oil on Masonite, 18½ by 23 inches, signed lower right, “W. Lester Stevens N.A.,” framed ($5/8,000).

2 cols. 32b.

Frederick Mulhaupt, harbor scene, oil on board, 8 by 10 inches, signed lower left, “Mulhaupt to Grover 1917,” framed ($6/10,000).

2 cols. 38a.

W. Lester Stevens, “Vinalhaven Cove Maine,” oil on canvas, 25 by 30 inches, signed lower left and right, “W.L. Stevens,” framed ($5/8,000).

1 1/2  cols. 72c.

Maurice Compris, floral still life, oil on canvas, 30 by 25 inches, signed upper left, “Compris,” retains the original silver gilt frame ($3/5,000).

1/1/2. 108a.

Aldro Thompson Hibbard, winter mountainscape, oil on canvas, 22 by 30 inches, signed lower right, “A.T. Hibbard,” framed ($8/12,000).

MUST RUN 7/25

BLACKWOOD/MARCH PRE AUG 6 AK w/5 cuts

ak/lsb set 7/17 #746014

ESSEX, MASS. — Blackwood/March Auctioneers announces a fine arts estates auction to be held Wednesday, August 6, at 6 pm at Woodman’s Essex Room on 125 Main Street. The preview is 4 to 5:55 pm, the day of the sale.

Significant to the August sale are paintings from a prominent Rockport Cape Ann School art collection, a western Massachusetts fine art collection and artworks from the estates of Carl W. Peters and Russ Webster.

With more than 250 lots, highlights of the sale include an 8-by-10-inch Frederick Mulhaupt Cape Ann harbor scene; an A.T. Hibbard winter Vermont landscape in his characteristic style; four large oils by Gilbert Tucker Margeson, the first artist to open a gallery in Rockport in the late Nineteenth Century; two rare floral oil still life paintings by Maurice Compris; four early oil land and seascapes by W. Lester Stevens.

Also, a historically significant portrait of the three-master schooner, Carrie B. Norton, sailing off Thatcher’s Island, Cape Ann, by W.P. Stubbs; four New England oils by Rockport painter Otis Cook; and works by Charles Paul Gruppe, Stanley Woodward and G.W. Picknell, among others.

The works offered in the August sale reflect the deep talent and range of the artists drawn to Cape Ann throughout the last 150 years, and Michael March says, “I think there is an interesting mix of Cape Ann and New England artwork making this a sale well worth attending.”