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Trails of Tradition: Parade Saddles, Beadwork & Western Auction

Sat, May 16, 2026 11:00AM EDT
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Lot 158

Marlee Brown Mackinac Island Grand Hotel, Oil

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Starting Bid
$500

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Featured in this lot is an Original Signed Marlee Brown "Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island", Oil on Canvas. This beautiful painting of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island on the shores of Lake Huron features its iconic white façade, the "World's Longest Porch", and colourful flower gardens, showcasing the Victorian architecture. This view is from the hotel's famous West Bluff with the Mackinac Bridge visible in the distant background. Painting is signed on the front lower left corner. Marlee was raised in Petoskey on the shore of Lake Michigan. Her love of nature was fostered there and in the mountains of the U.S, and Austria, where her championship ski-racing career took her to train and compete. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Marlee also studied at U.C. Berkeley and in Tours, France, Her continued studies have included, masterpiece painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Students’ League of New York, National Academy of Design, Parsons School of Fine Art, Vermont Studio center, and En Plein Air School of Painting in Paris. Marlee’s work hangs in many private and corporate collections. Most notably her painting hung in the Washington, D.C at the White House. She has exhibited extensively, including the Gallerie Chabin in Paris and the Wally Findlay Gallery in Chicago, Several of her paintings have been selected for the U,S, State Department’s Art in the Embassies Program. This stunning professionally mounted painting is in very nice condition, the gold gilt gesso frame is in good condition overall. Visible art measures 23.125"W x 35.25"L, frame is 32.5"W x 42.5"L x 3"D, weight is 13lb, 14oz.

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