Drawing
- Title:
- Downtown Lowell
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2006.051.76
- Creator:
- Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (1912-2017)
- Date:
- 1976
- Description:
- Drawing of Downtown Lowell, Lowell, MA, by Marian Cannon Schlesinger (1912-2017), 1976. 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 lower left facade. Center building, white, three stories with cornice, arched windows, and large shopping windows on first and second floor; first-story sign reads: "MEMFS JEWELER"; second-story sign reads: "HONDA". Left building, brown, four stories, arched windows, and cornice with corbels. Signed in watercolor, lower right : "MCS / 1976". Pencil inscription on reverse: "29A Lowell".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11.9 W-15.7 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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