Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

This was in my uncle's house for many, many years. And the artist actually lived about three houses down from my uncle, and this is my uncle.

APPRAISER

Really?

GUEST

Uh-huh. And he was the head of the humanities department at Oklahoma State.

APPRAISER

Okay.

GUEST

And Doel Reed was the head of an art and painting and drawing at the same place. This hung in my uncle's home for many, many, many years, and I inherited it. And then Doel was really more known for a printer type artist, and this is one of his aquatints. And this was a wedding present.

APPRAISER

Oh, okay. This is an interesting comparison for a number of reasons. Doel Reed's paintings are best known for his Taos landscapes.

GUEST

Right, right.

APPRAISER

It's not a typical subject for him.

GUEST

No.

APPRAISER

It's clearly not Taos.

GUEST

Right.

APPRAISER

But it's a great picture. And what makes it interesting is his paintings don't come up much.

GUEST

Right.

APPRAISER

This is an aquatint, as you rightly said. This is the work he's known for. He's known as a printmaker, most of the awards he received over the decades were for his printmaking.

GUEST

Correct.

APPRAISER

Having said that, the values are very different. For the oil painting, if you were to sell this at auction today, you'd be looking about $4,000 to $6,000.

GUEST

Oh good, okay.

APPRAISER

It's a wonderful, one-of-a-kind object.

GUEST

Correct.

APPRAISER

The print, even though this is the work he's known for, it's a multiple. So many of these were done. So the value is going to be less. So if you were to sell this at auction, you'd probably be looking about $500 to $700.

GUEST

Okay.