Painting

Title:

Harmon Farm, Madison, NH

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1983.108

Creator:

Hunt, Charles A. (1852-1930)Artist

Date:

circa 1885

Description:

Landscape painting, Harmon Farm, Madison, NH, by Charles A. Hunt (1852-1930), c. 1885. Oil on canvas. Grazing cows in center foreground. White house with outbuilding right center; only two roofs are visible. Red house with center chimney and two gray outbuildings far left background. House with yellow front facade, left side painted red, center chimney, attached ell, and gray barn with red door and outbuilding, far right background. Rolling hills, mountain range, and blue, pleasant skies in the background. Unsigned. Gilding over gesso on molded wood frame.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-20.125 W-30.125 inches

Provenance:

Painting originally owned by Rev. Lot Harmon (1826-1905). Inherited by his son, George H. Harmon (b. 1879) who bequeathed it to his wife, Harriett P. Sewall Harmon (1888-1984), and their daughter, Harriet Miller (b. 1911), donated it to the NHHS on behalf of her mother. Family tradition attributes the painting to Charles A. Hunt. Charles A. Hunt was the son of Ruth Harmon's (1789-1889) sister Sally.

Credit Line:

Gift of Harriett Harmon

People:

Harmon, George, Harmon, Harriet, Harmon, Henry, Harmon, Lot, Harmon, Ruth, Hunt, Charles A. (1852-1930)

Subjects:

Farm houses, Farmland, Farms, Farmsteads, Harmon Farm, Landscape paintings, Pastoral scenes, Cows