Artist: Rutherford Boyd (American, 1882-1951)

Medium: Watercolor on whatman board

Title: The Auctioneers Barn

Subject: Man with pitchfork in barn with animals

Image Size: 19H x 29W

Date: 1944

Edition Size: Original

Signature: Lower left "Rutherford Boyd 1944"

Frame: Molded natural wood frame, 26H x 36W

Provenance: Signed letter from son David Boyd

John Rutherford Boyd, known as Rutherford Boyd, was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He moved to New York City and attended the Art Students League. Boyd worked as an illustrator before turning to the fine arts and becoming a painter, sculptor, and art teacher. Boyd exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1926 to 1929, and 1931 to 1932. He won prizes at the Dallas Art Association in 1940 and the Southern States Art League in 1941. Boyd was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Salmagundi Club, and the Architectural League of New York. Hw would later settled in Leonia, New Jersey.