Note 1): Per askart.com, Mitchell’s almost exclusive mediums were watercolor and gouache, which he used primarily to render genre, human activity, history, historical events and landscapes. During his early years, he studied at the Art Students League and participated in the

WPA Federal Arts Project in the 1930s. For a long time he maintained a studio in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. He exhibited at many prestigious institutions, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Institute, International Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mitchell’s works are held by a number of museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO and The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ. Note 2) These two very freely and fluidly painted watercolors are complementary and may well be depictions of two different locations on the same New England cove. The coloring is vivid and as crisp and vivid as the day they were painted. They make a very attractive and pleasurable pair of watercolors that can be displayed as such in any living, dining or bed room in the house. These considerations, the considerations in Note 1), plus the fact that the highest auction price ever paid for a Mitchell water color painting was entitled "Oklahoma Workmen" (12" x 20"), which sold for $632 on 9/18/2005, and is the most recent Mitchell watercolor to sell at auction of the very few Mitchell auction sales, per Askart.com, warrant the conclusion that the presale estimate of $600 to $1,000 is reasonable and justifiable.