Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1982.090.01
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1940
- Description:
- Painting, untitled, by unknown artist, c. 1940. Pencil and watercolor on Masonite. Preliminary sketch for Fine Arts Project, WPA, under supervision of Omer Lassonde, Director. Men chopping and sawing wood. Two men with a two-man crosscut saw cutting a large tree at right. Man holding ax at center. Man picking up sawn boards left of center. Man standing on truck step at left. Man stands left foreground by woodpile with back toward viewer. Buildings in background with chimney smoke, possibly a sawmill; other men with axes in background center and right. Unsigned. Unframed.
- Material:
- Wood
Masonite - Dimensions:
- H-16 W-36 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Louisa T. Lassonde
- People:
- Lassonde, Omer T. (1903-1980)
- Subjects:
- Wood cutting, Woodcutters, Sawing wood, Saws, Axes, Chopping wood, Genre paintings
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