Oil on canvas, signed with artist's initials at lower right, the canvas with cardboard backing with artist's stamp, presented in the original frame with linen liner.

Stretcher size 30 x 24 in.; Frame dimensions 39 x 33 in.

From the Estate of Martha Melvin, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Regional Gallery of Art, Boone, North Carolina

Living and painting in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, Ward Nichols' realistic paintings have been exhibited at the Huntington Museum of Art, Springfield Museum of Art in Massachusetts, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Asheville Museum of Art, the Hickory Museum of Art and at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

Minor nicking and rubbing to frame; light staining to linen liner.

$1,000 - 3,000