Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1945.031.20
- Creator:
- Custer, Edward L. (1837-1881)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Painting. Firescreen. Landscape painting, untitled, by Edward L. Custer (1837-1881), c. 1860. Oil on canvas. Harbor scene with water at center, extending from foreground into the distance. Small sailboat at lower left in foreground. Land and trees to left and right of water. Mountains across background. Dark blue and pink streaked sky with rays of sunlight bursting through from upper left corner. Typed label adhered to reverse of lower stretcher: "Gift of Miss Mary Bell Willson / Manchester, NH October, 1945 / One firescreen - painted by Edward L. Custer, of Manchester, NH". No frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-38 W-36 D-1 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Mary Bell Willson estate. Previously "housed" at the Manchester Historic Association.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary Bell Willson
- People:
- Custer, Edward L. (1837-1881), Johnson, Mary A. (1818-1881), Johnson, Horace (1810-1881), Willson, Mary Bell (1876-1946)
- Subjects:
- Fire screens, Landscape paintings, Harbors
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