Each painted in colors on silk - including a large vertical format painting of women and children in a network of pagodas, including a vignette of women at a tea ceremony, signed and with seal at lower right, retaining old Norfolk, Virginia gallery labels on the verso (SS 31 3/8 x 16 in.); the second depicts women in a garden (SS 10.25 x 7 3/8 in.; DOA 16 x 13 in.); and the third features three paintings depicting women and children at play (central painting 10 1/8 x 7.5 in.; DOA 16 x 33.25 in.).

Estate of Dr. James Gavin Field, Jr. of Windsor Hill Farm in Gordonsville, Virginia James Gavin Field, Jr. (1862-1927) was born in Windsor, Virginia, the fifth son of General James Gavin Field and Frances Etta Cowherd. He was educated at Richmond College and the Virginia Medical College, graduating in April 1885. After a brief stint as a physician at the City Alms House Hospital in Richmond, he served as a commissioned assistant surgeon in the US Navy medical corps from 1887 until his retirement in 1893. After retiring from the Navy, he practiced medicine in Denver, Colorado. He was ordered back into service with the Navy during the Spanish-American War. After the war he returned to Denver, but passed away in Washington, D.C. and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Dr. Field's family home was Windsor Hill Farm. A classic Greek Revival home built circa 1848, the plantation is now part of the Southwest Mountain Rural Historic District.

The large painting is laid on board; the remaining have not been examined out of the frame.

$300 - 500