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Painting

Title:
After the Rain
Object Name:
Painting
Object ID:
1927.005
Creator:
Palmer, Adelaide C. (1851-1928)Artist
Place of Origin:
Piermont, NH
Date:
1888
Description:
Landscape painting, After the Rain, by Adelaide C. Palmer (1851-1928), 1888. Oil on canvas. Scene in Piermont, NH. Slight hill rising to right, green grass and low brown shrubs or weeds across foreground. Gray rock at right foreground. Trees with green foliage across background, cluster of dead pine trees at right. Lifting gray clouds in sky. Signed at lower right "A.C. Palmer / 1888." Brass plate at bottom of frame reads: "At Piermont, N.H. / Palmer". Gilded gesso over wood frame with plain interior molding and decorative foliate molding around exterior.
Material:
Textile
Canvas
Dimensions:
H-26 W-42 D-1 inches
Provenance:
The landscape is a scene in Piermont, NH, where the artist spent her childhood and maintained a summer home after she worked in Boston. Gift of the New Hampshire Savings Bank.
Credit Line:
Gift of the New Hampshire Savings Bank
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