Painting
- Title:
- Depot Square, Portsmouth, N.H.
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.003
- Creator:
- Cheney, Russell (1881-1945)
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- circa 1927
- Description:
- Landscape Painting, Depot Square, Portsmouth, N.H., by Russell Cheney (1881-1945), c. 1930. Oil on canvas. Depicts large multi-gabled house with yellow siding and red-brown roof. Person sitting on porch. Three cars parked on left. Yellow gambrel-roof house on left. Tall tree between the two houses. Signed, lower right: "Russell Cheney". Pencil inscription on reverse of top stretcher member: " 'Depot Square' Portsmouth N.H. / by Russell Cheney Kittery Me." Modern gilded frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27 W-40.25 D-0.75 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan, preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H. artifacts. Dorothy was an acquaintance of Russell Cheney; she introduced him to her friend, artist Phillip Callahan (see 2004.043.008).
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- Subjects:
- Depot Square, Portsmouth, NH, Landscape paintings
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