Drawing
- Title:
- Contoocook Mills
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2006.051.32
- Creator:
- Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (1912-2017)
- Date:
- 1973
- Description:
- Drawing of Contoocook Mills, Hillsborough, NH, by Marian Cannon Schlesinger (1912-2017), 1973. Ink and wash on paper. Drawing of a mill yard. Road in foreground vanishes middle ground left. Buildings line road. Two, two and one-half story buildings right; first, painted dark gray with clapboards; second, painted red. Rectangular, red, two-story, flat-roof building left center background. Long clapboard building with front tower and cupola in left background. Large, dark gray, clapboard building in right center background with sloping roof. Signed, lower right, "MCS / 1973". Matted.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-12.7 W-14.8 inches
- Provenance:
- The Marian Cannon Schlesinger Collection consists of 83 drawings of New Hampshire and Massachusetts textile mills painted by Mrs. Schlesinger between 1971 and 2001.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Marian Cannon Schlesinger
- Subjects:
- Mills, Textile industry
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