Antiques Roadshow

WOMAN 1

Our mother purchased it in 1963 from a gentleman who had a side business, but sold a few antiques and she paid $40 for it.

WOMAN 2

Oh, the frame she was told by the man she bought it from was made by Native American. So that's all we know about it, that's what she was told.

APPRAISER

Well, the picture is signed and dated down here. The artist's name is Dawson Dawson-Watson. His first name and the first part of his second name were the same. Dawson, and then Dawson-Watson, a hyphenated name. And it's dated 1914. He was born in London, and he studied in Paris and for about five years he lived very close to Claude Monet, the French impressionist. Then he moved to the United States, he's actually famous as a painter of cacti if you can believe it. Here we see a classic haystack landscape very much influenced by someone like Monet. I'm not so sure that this is an American, a Native American frame. I think in 1914 it could very easily be what you call "arts and craft." It's the original frame and it's a great frame. But I think your mother made a great investment because I think it's worth about $10,000-15,000.

WOMAN 1

Oh gosh! We were-- we were joking about it because--

WOMAN 2

We were embarrassed to bring it because we thought it might be $50. But thank you so much.

WOMAN 1

This is so exciting.

APPRAISER

Thanks for coming to the ROADSHOW.