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John Philip Falter (1910-1982)
Lot 58

John Philip Falter (1910-1982)

Shirt-Sleeve Court

Closed22 September 2015

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John Philip Falter (1910-1982)
Shirt-Sleeve Court
signed 'John Falter' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 47 7/8 in. (81.5 x 121.6 cm.)
Painted in 1976.

The artist.
Art Weaver, Nebraska, acquired from the above.
Private collection, Omaha, Nebraska, acquired from the above, circa late 1980s.
Private collection, Omaha, Nebraska, by descent.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

John Falter's Shirt-Sleeve Court depicts a young Abraham Lincoln settling a dispute in the cornfields of the American Midwest and illustrates the line, "Lincoln remarked it was a kind of shirt-sleeve court they were holding there in the cornfield," from Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926), which was re-published by Reader's Digest.