GUEST: This is an oil painting that I acquired in 1984 in Tulsa at an estate sale.
APPRAISER: And what did you pay for it?
GUEST: $600.
APPRAISER: We see that the artist's name is Delle Miller and that this was painted in 1921. And in 1921, this Kansas-born artist was painting, along with other American women artists, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann. And Gloucester was an iconic artists' colony from the 19th century all the way up until the present day. It's an Impressionist painting. It's just incredibly beautiful. I'm very excited to see it, because we don't see that many women artists on the market. And, in fact, I could only find one record of sale for her, and it was pretty insubstantial. When I compare it to other male artists who have come up for auction in the last five or ten years-- and especially the artists she studied under, like Arthur Wesley Dow and Hugh Breckenridge-- she just stands right up to those other male artists who were painting at that time. If this were in a retail setting today, I would think that it would bring about $25,000.
GUEST: Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
APPRAISER: It's amazing.
GUEST: My knees are buckling.
APPRAISER: (laughs)
