English Cocker Spaniel Watercolor and Gouache Pictures, a Set of Six

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English Cocker Spaniel Watercolor and Gouache Pictures,
A Set of Six,
Stamped Hill

The framed pictures are of six different … more English Cocker Spaniel Watercolor and Gouache Pictures,
A Set of Six,
Stamped Hill

The framed pictures are of six different colored English Cocker Spaniels, in a rectangular format within a gray matte and reeded gilt frame, each in the same show stance looking to the right.

Dimensions: 10 3/4 inches high x 12 3./4 inches wide x 3/4 inch deep

Provenance: A New Jersey Private Collection,
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection.

Reverse: paper label on some from- M. Grieve Inc/ Hand Crafted Frames/236 East 59th St./ New York City.

Reference:
(From an article in the Canine Chronicle by Debi Lampert-Rudman, May, 2013.)
http://caninechronicle.com/uncategorized/the-english-cocker-spaniel-art-of-geraldine-rockefeller-dodge/

The English Cocker Spaniel in America, was written by Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge and published in 1942. She had just been elected President of the ECS Club that year after more than a decade of importing English Cocker Spaniels from England and developing some of the finest lines of ECS in America. She wrote the book to help define the newly emerging breed’s standard as distinguished from the American Cocker, provide its first illustrated standard and stud book records, as well as provide a place for Stud Cards of burgeoning breeders of true English Cocker type Spaniels.
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, born April 3, 1882 an heiress to the Rockefeller fortune and wife of Marcellus Hartley, heir of Remington Arms/Dodge fortunes, was, according to an article by Larry Bataille in Country Roads Magazine, one half of the early 20th century’s “wealthiest couple in the nation” upon their marriage in 1907.

Known as “The First Lady of Dogdom”, Mrs. Dodge is probably best known as founder of the Morris & Essex Dog Show – hailed by newspapers of the day as “the finest outdoor show in the world, a model of its kind.” At its peak in 1939 as many as 50,000 spectators and 4,456 dogs representing 83 breeds flocked to Mrs. Dodge’s Madison, NJ estate to enjoy an extraordinary day of fabulous dogs, fine foods, flowers, and an international “who’s who” of judges, fanciers and exhibitors held on the polo fields of her “Giralda Farms” estate in Madison, NJ.


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