Painting

Title:

Lumbering Camp in Winter

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1951.007

Creator:

Hill, Edward (1843-1923)Artist

Date:

1882

Description:

Landscape Painting, Lumbering Camp in Winter, by Edward Hill (1843-1923), 1882. Oil on canvas. Snow in woods of evergreen and deciduous trees. Felled logs in foreground and long-handled ax. Two yoke of oxen with driver standing on right, pulling logs on sled, center middle ground. Wagon-wheel cart, pile of chopped wood, and laundry hanging on a clothesline in left background; small log cabin with attached lean-to, door on gable end with window above. Forest and blue sky in background. Signed lower left: "Edward Hill / 1882." Pencil inscription on canvas reverse [unseen, in accession file]: "Lumbering Camp / in Winter / Edward Hill." Gilded gesso over molded wood frame with leaves and berries exterior, anthemion center, and beaded interior.

Material:

Textile

Dimensions:

H-20 W-30 inches

Provenance:

Donor's grandfather, Henry C. Knowlton (1833-1891), was a chairmaker at the Heywood Wakefield Co., Gardner, MA, where both Edward and Thomas Hill were decorators. Edward either gave or sold the painting to the grandfather. Descended to Alec E. Knowlton (1857-19 ), also a furniture manufacturer in Gardner, MA. Given to NHHS in memory of Dorothy M. Knowlton's nephew, Kenneth Read Knowlton, who was killed in France in World War II.

Credit Line:

Gift of Dorothy M. Knowlton, in Memory of Kenneth Read Knowlton

People:

Hill, Edward (1843-1923), Knowlton, Kenneth Read, Knowlton, Dorothy M., Knowlton, Henry C. (1833-1891), Knowlton, Alec E. (1857-1921)

Subjects:

Camp life, Genre paintings, Landscape paintings, Logging, Lumber, Lumber industry, Oxen, Winter