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Auction Barn

Artist Jackson Lee Nesbitt (American, 1913 - 2008)
Printer Wayne Kline (American, 1949 - 2005)
Date1989
MediumLithograph
DimensionsPlate: 12 1/2 × 17 inches (31.75 × 43.18 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 19 1/2 inches (36.51 × 49.53 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Object numberF93-24/1
Signed(bottom margin, in pencil): "Auction Barn 187/250 Jackson Lee Nesbitt '89"
Edition/State/Proof187/250
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionIn wood-walled enclosure, opening center left, cow and suckling calf in clearing, center, surrounded by crowd of standing figures, left and center, seated figures, left, right, and bottom. Two auctioneers behind high, cloth-covered podium, left rear. Wire fence in front of foreground group. Above and left of auctioneers, sign on wall: Not/Responsible/Fire - Theft/or/Accident. Behatted woman in flowered dress rests hand in basket, lower right corner.
Copyright© Estate of Jackson Lee Nesbitt
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