Drawing
- Title:
- Downtown Lowell
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2006.051.75
- Creator:
- Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (1912-2017)
- Date:
- 1975
- Description:
- Drawing of Downtown Lowell, Lowell, MA, by Marian Cannon Schlesinger (1912-2017), 1975. Ink and wash on paper. Row of buildings on a street. Blue building at right with three and one-half stories, dormers, and large shop window. Center building, white, three stories with cornice, arched windows, and large shopping windows on first and second floor; second story window reads: "HONDA". Left building, brown, four stories, arched windows, and cornice with corbels. Signed in watercolor, lower right : "MCS - Lowell MA / 1975" and in pencil "Downtown Lowell." Label on reverse, in ink, "30 Downtown Lowell / now largely destroyed", and in watercolor, "by M. Cannon S / 1973".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11 W-15 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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