2015 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 154
154
De Cost Smith (1864 – 1939)
The Signal (1905)
oil on canvas
36 × 30 inches
signed and dated lower right
VERSO
Label, “‘The Signal’ by DeCost Smith Property of William D. Sawtell”
PROVENANCE
The Artist
Clement Sawtell, Lincoln, MA, 1939 (Smith’s nephew)
Andrew De Cost Butler, Somerville, MA, by descent