Painting
- Title:
- Paul Revere's Ride to Portsmouth
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.035
- Creator:
- Callahan, Phillip (1918-1991)
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- 1941
- Description:
- Painting of "Paul Revere's Ride to Portsmouth," attributed to Phillip Callahan (1918-1991), 1941. Watercolor on paper. Center: Paul Revere in blue waistcoat, red tri-corner hat, brown breeches, and black boots, astride white, rearing horse; left: male in green coat with dark breeches, white stockings, and buckled shoes waves his hat in air; right: male in brown shirt waves his arm in air; man on far right in white wig, shirt and vest, breeches, and stockings reaches for man to his left. Background: one barren tree on each side of painting. Watermark, lower right corner, "HAND MADE". Study for mural painted at the Post Exchange, Camp Langdon, Portsmouth, NH.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-14.9 W-20.95 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- Subjects:
- Horses, Horseback riding, World War II
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