April 2018 Update
The owners of the pastel have provided us with this better image of the pastel protrait study of Carl Sandburg.  May 2017 Update Through a Pennsylvania friend of Francis Quirk, we have found a pastel study for the painting of Carl Sandburg. It still does not solve the riddle as to the location of the final painting. But it does provide us with a bit more context.   The pastel is a profile, while the oil portrait study below has an angled approach. The Original 2016 Post Among the paintings and paintings due to come up for auction in the coming days we found this painting which is clearly a study for the missing portrait of Carl Sandburg. We reached out to decendents of Abby Sutherland Brown, but have had no luck finding it.  |
| Study for Portrait of Carl Sandberg Found in Francis Quirk's Maine Auction |
Amelia Earhardt and Abby Sutherland Brown of Ogontz College
While this is a bit off-topic, it is an interesting side item. While seeking the possible location of Francis Quirk's portrait of Carl Sandburg, we conducted a search on information related to Abby Sutherland Brown. She was the primary force driving Ogontz College and commissioned the portrait of her friend, Sandburg.
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920).
The main Sandburg portrait we found is the work of William Smith from 1961. It is not the work of Francis J. Quirk.
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| Portrait of Carl Sandburg by William Smith |
In a Dictionary of Literary Influences we came across this write up of Ogontz College student Amelia Earhart and her relationship with Abby.
You can find the original text of the book here.
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