Appraisal: Charles Bensco "A Pastoral" Oil Painting, ca. 1950
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Appraisal: Charles Bensco "A Pastoral" Oil Painting, ca. 1950
In Red Butte Garden & Arboretum, Hour 2, Susan Kime appraises a Charles Bensco "A Pastoral" oil painting, ca. 1950.
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Appraisal: Charles Bensco "A Pastoral" Oil Painting, ca. 1950
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In Red Butte Garden & Arboretum, Hour 2, Susan Kime appraises a Charles Bensco "A Pastoral" oil painting, ca. 1950.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: This painting belonged to my grandparents.
My grandfather was born in Sanpete County, Utah.
He was a sheep rancher.
He was born in the late 1800s.
My mother tells me that he and my grandmother were traveling to Southern California by car and drove through Arizona on their way, and he would've just picked it up on their way to California.
APPRAISER: Do you have any idea when that might have been?
GUEST: It was probably in the 1950s.
APPRAISER: It is an oil painting on canvas.
It's titled A Pastoral, number one.
It depicts a shepherdess in Monument Valley.
And I did check with the tribal table, and they said that this is a Navajo woman.
And it was done most likely in the 1950s.
It's done by Charles Bensco.
Charles Bensco was a Hungarian-born artist and moved to the United States when he was seven years old.
He was born in 1894.
Uh, he moved to New York, and then he went to L.A., where he was a portrait painter and a muralist.
And then in 1945, went to Phoenix.
When he was in L.A., he was the head of the Society for Sanity in Art.
That was a group of artists.
They were representational artists, and they were very opposed to all of the modern trends in art.
APPRAISER: Do you have any idea what your grandfather might've paid for the painting?
GUEST: I have no idea.
APPRAISER: His work has shown up at auction, and several very similar scenes to this one have sold in the range of $2,000 to $3,000 at auction.
GUEST: Wow.
That's incredible.
That is-- that's amazing.
He loved sheep, but he also loved and respected the people who did what he did, too... APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: which was to care for them.
APPRAISER: Well, that's really lovely.
GUEST: So APPRAISER: And, uh, and it's a beautiful painting.
GUEST: It is, it is-- thank you.
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 2m 40s | Appraisal: 1840 Book of Mormon (2m 40s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 1m 2s | Appraisal: 1867 Seth Thomas Round-top Shelf Clock (1m 2s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 3m 2s | Appraisal: 1928 Charles Lindbergh-signed Flight Helmet (3m 2s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 3m 1s | Appraisal: 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Card (3m 1s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 4m 3s | Appraisal: 1953 Marilyn Monroe "River of No Return" Set Photos (4m 3s)
Appraisal: 1961 Ed Ruscha Drawings & Letters
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 4m 25s | Appraisal: 1961 Ed Ruscha Drawings & Letters (4m 25s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 2m 26s | Appraisal: 1970 Rolex "Red" Submariner Watch (2m 26s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 1m 4s | Appraisal: 1999 Nguyễn Văn Minh Silver Foil & Lacquer Painting (1m 4s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 3m 4s | Appraisal: American Folk Art Oil Portraits, ca. 1810 (3m 4s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 3m 40s | Appraisal: Chinese Export Silver Epergne, ca. 1890 (3m 40s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 1m 29s | Appraisal: Chinese Lacquer Chest, ca. 1900 (1m 29s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 2m 24s | Appraisal: Derby Porcelain Bough Pots, ca. 1815 (2m 24s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 2m 26s | Appraisal: Gary Ernest Smith Oil Painting, ca. 2000 (2m 26s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 1m 4s | Appraisal: Landstrom Co. Louis XVI-style End Table, ca. 1935 (1m 4s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 1m 44s | Appraisal: Roullet & Decamps Musical Automaton, ca. 1900 (1m 44s)
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Clip: S30 Ep2 | 2m 46s | Appraisal: Sears-exclusive Walking Jamie Doll, ca. 1971 (2m 46s)
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