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Native & Western: Fine Beadwork, Navajo Rugs & Cowboy Collection

Sat, Oct 10, 2026 11:00AM EDT
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Lot 53

Marlee Brown (Michigan, 20th C.) Oil on Canvas

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

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This is an authentic original signed Marlee Brown (American, Michigan, 20th-Century) oil painting on canvas circa 1998, a noted Mackinac Island, Michigan artist; this example appears to be of Medocino Headlands State Park, Mendocino, California. The painting is signed bottom left MARLEE. Marlee Brown 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 is truly a stunning example set in a custom gilt wood frame. Signed on the back of the canvas as well, “MARLEE BROWN ’98.” Canvas measures 10-inches by 8-inches and the frame is 20.25-inches by 18.25-inches. For reference see the Marlee Brown Mackinac Island Grand Hotel painting sold by our company NAAC in May 2026 for $4,480.

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