Drawing
- Title:
- McElwain Shoe Factory
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2006.051.49
- Creator:
- Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (1912-2017)
- Date:
- 1973
- Description:
- Drawing of McElwain Shoe Factory, Newport, NH, by Marian Cannon Schlesinger (1912-2017), 1973. Ink and wash on paper. Tree in left foreground, branches bending inward. Brick mill building in background with three stories, skylight, and stair tower. Additional mill buildings to right with stair towers. Leaning telephone poles right toward vanishing point. Signed twice lower right, "MCS / Newport, N.H. / M Cannon S / Newport, N.H. / 1978" and lower right corner, "Newport, N.H." Matted.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-14.1 W-18.5 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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