Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: I was at an estate sale, and I was loaded down with items, standing in line to pay for them, and then I saw this out of the corner of my eye, hanging on the wall, and I said, forget this stuff.

And I grabbed it off the wall and paid for it.

It was like, for $45.

APPRAISER: Harvey Joiner is the artist of this oil on board.

Harvey Joiner was born 1852.

He died in 1932.

But he was born just north of the Ohio River, north of Louisville.

He was actually born in Charlestown, Indiana.

He made most of his career in Louisville, though.

And the vast majority of his subjects are of Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky.

They were almost always these interior forest subjects, and they're, really, little jewels.

It's probably a summer scene, which is desirable for Joiner also, but it's definitely 100% Cherokee Park.

The work is signed here in the lower right, faintly and in green, so it kind of blends in with the background, which was typical of the artist.

He was very prolific.

But Kentuckians are, are rabid about their Kentucky regional artists.

And Joiner is sort of at the very top.

At auction, a reasonable, conservative estimate would be in the $3,000 to $5,000 range.

GUEST: Nice.

(chuckling) Pretty good for $45.

(chuckles)