January 2004 Fine Art & Antiques Online Auction
Lot 41. Canvas mounted to board, an image in honor of Vicktor Schreckengost's "Blue Horse". Signed lower right, unframed, apprx 19" x 15-3/4". Coltman is a well known Cleveland artist whose work is difficult to find and is well known amongst Cleveland School collectors. From the estate of George Adomeit, estate stamp on verso.
400.00/600.00
November 2004 Fine Arts & Antiques Auction
Lot 75. "The White House". Oil on canvasboard, inscribed/signed lower right, framed. Titled in pencil on verso. Image apprx 10" x 10-1/2". Overall with blond wood frame apprx 13" x 13-1/2". Coltman is a well known Cleveland artist whose work is difficult to find and is well known amongst Cleveland School collectors. Coltman studied with William Merritt Chase at the Students Art League and exhibited at the Case Library in 1902 withbwatercolors from his travels in England and France. He also exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art May Shows circa 1920-30 as well as Cleveland galleries such as Gage Gallery, Women's City Club, Lindner's Little Gallery as well as the Art Institute and Academys of Chicago and Philadelphia. As a WPA painter in 1933, Coltman was commissioned to paint the mural "Dominance Of The City" for the Cleveland Public Library. He is also responsible for the bronze plaque in President Garfield's tomb in Lakeview Cemetary, Cleveland, Ohio.
200.00/400.00 Sold $448.50