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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 4294641, member: 6444&quot;]Thank you both, I&#039;m sorry I missed both of these comments the first time around! I&#039;m outside of Boston, so see a lot of New England work. Really nice to find some personal stories to go along with the artwork. And, yes, I kept both of them - in fact my wife hung up the sunflowers in a guest room - though I think I&#039;m going to have to put it in a proper frame. We have way more art than we can hang up and my wife and I have different taste (I appreciate a much broader range of work than she does). So the fact that she picked this one I consider a vote for the work of Harry Cummins!</p><p><br /></p><p>But now - I just went and searched liveauctioneers again, because I don&#039;t understand why none of his work has shown up at auction. Nor is he listed in askart, which is where I normally search for artists. How is this possible? Is it possible that Harry was a nickname, and that he had another given name?</p><p><br /></p><p>And to stir the pot to boiling, in my search on liveauctioneers I did find the following pastel painting and signature. The work and signature look very similar to me - but the auctioneer ascribed it to a different artist Gus Cummins, British Fauvist born in 1943. What is going on??? <a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/82432113_gus-cummins-pastel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/82432113_gus-cummins-pastel" rel="nofollow">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/82432113_gus-cummins-pastel</a></p><p>(Sorry the pics are so small, I had to screenshot them when my original links won&#039;t display, but if you follow the liveauctioneers link you&#039;ll see them full size).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/492/163284/82432113_2_x.jpg?auto=webp&amp;format=pjpg&amp;quality=80&amp;version=1583673183" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/492/163284/82432113_3_x.jpg?auto=webp&amp;format=pjpg&amp;quality=80&amp;version=1583673183" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]346457[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]346458[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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