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LAMAR – At noon Sunday at the Nittany Valley Volunteer Fire Co. in Lamar, a rare Annie M. Snyder painting will go up for auction to the highest bidder.
Several other unique local items indigenous to this area will also be available at this sale.
Annie M. Snyder is one of the most renowned local female artists from Clinton County. Born in 1852 in Salona, near Mill Hall, she had some early instruction in Philadelphia under Emil Kett, from Nuremberg, Germany. She lived for a time in Philadelphia but eventually returned to Salona and then Lock Haven, in 1893, where she lived her adult life teaching art at Lock Haven University. Annie died of cancer in 1927.
What makes this painting rare is the subject matter, according to auctioneer Don Mansfield.
Annie is most known for her small farm scenes especially ones including cows, or for her photographic-like still paintings of fruit. This painting, however, is large and the subject matter is a deer scene said to have been painted in Haneyville. Another story places the scene in Tylersville along Fishing Creek. Either way, the signed and dated 1900 painting is a stellar work of art.
In 1970, this painting was appraised between $2,500-$3,000, Mansfield said. Annie Snyder paintings have gained a compounded three percent increase in value per year. That values this painting between $9,000-$12,000.
Other unique items to be sold at the auction include:
r A misspelled Sugar Valley “Sugar Valey” jug.
r A 6.5-foot German Lancaster painted cupboard dated 1837.
r A stenciled dated 1861 barn red blanket chest.
r A “History of the Beech Creek Area” book.