(American, 1872 1967)
Red Cart and Fence
Oil on panel, 11 7/8 x 12 inches
Signed at lower right: “NMF”
Inscribed verso in ink top left: “Nancy M. Ferguson.”
Inscribed in pencil: “No.2/[text covered by label] the frame/this one Framed.”; “The Red Cart-/and Fence/#33”
Label: (typed) “MAKLER GALLERY/1634 Latimer St. Phila./#50 Nancy Ferguson”; (ink) “Red Cart & fence/Mrs. H. Cohen”
About the Artist
(American, 1872 1967)
Nancy Maybin Ferguson was born in Philadelphia and studied at the School of Design for Women (Moore College of Art) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She worked under Elliott Daingerfield, Hugh H. Breckenridge, and William Merritt Chase. A member of the Philadelphia Ten, Ferguson's work is in the collections of the Reading (Pennsylvania) Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, the Sellersville (Pennsylvania) Art Museum, and the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
