May 2011 auctions of American art at Sotheby's and Christie's New York

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William Aiken Walker, The Cotton Wagon, n.d., $434,5000, Sotheby’s New York, May 19, 2011

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DULL AMERICAN?
by Rachel Corbett

While the New York sales of American art at Sotheby’s and Christie’s last week had their epic landscapes, schmaltzy genre scenes and early modernist paintings selling for six- and seven-figures, the overall totals were not what you’d call booming.

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