Rick Dunn Estate Sale in Tryon, NC

Fantastic Estate Sale of Noted Tryon Art and Memorabilia Collector Extraordinaire Rick Dunn

Featuring a large collection of vintage Late 19th/Early 20th C Tryon Arts Colony oil paintings, water colors, prints, photographs, and mixed media by George Aid, Amelia Watson, Diana Nash, Fred Reich, Charles Quest,  Hansel Mieth, etc, early maps, as well as contemporary Tryon and regional artists such as Richard Nelson, Dale McEntire, and Gary Page.  Wonderful regional books on architecture, history, arts, gardens, local authors, southern history, mysteries, first editions and various author signed books.  A collection of furnishings including 19th C one drawer tables, drop leaf tables, figural hitching post and more.   

** Portion of the Proceeds is being generously given To Benefit The Tryon History Museum **

Various artists included -

• George Aid (1872-1938) - oil portraits, etching, chalk portraits
• Louis Rowell (1870-1928)  - landscape scenes
• Diana Nash (1873-1952)
• Amelia Watson (1856-1934) watercolors
• Edith Watson (1861-1943) watercolors
• Fred Reich  
• Charles Quest (1904-1993)- floral still life paintings, portrait
• Robert Lawrence (1883-1970)  - several landscape paintings
• Hansel Mieth (Life Magazine photographer (1909-1998))- wonderful series of photographs of a circa 1930's Tryon Riding and Hunt Club BBQ at Harmon Field held for the local farmers whose land they rode on
• Elizabeth Paxton Oliver (1891-1977) - prints and watercolor
• Margaret Benedict Bull (1884-1980) - illustrator for Vogue etc 
• William Steene (1888-1965) - portrait of Mrs. George Louis Canfield
• Betty Ann Mosseller Dobbyn
• Elizabeth O'Neill Verner
• Gary Page - many paintings
• Richard Nelson - wonderful oil painting Skyuka Road View
• Dale McEntire - several landscape paintings
• James Buchanan - large coastal painting 
• Charles Livingston Bull - painting of stag from Rutledge family Hampton Plantation
• Many more local and regional artists
• Books galore