Painting
- Title:
- Skatutakee Mountain, Hancock, NH
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2006.019.01
- Creator:
- Tomajan, William Hurant (1894-1987)
- Date:
- 1929
- Description:
- Landscape painting, Skatutakee Mountain, Hancock, NH, by William Hurant Tomajan (1894-1987), 1929. Oil on canvas. Winter scene from the Abner Osgood Farm. Leafless trees in foreground. Large pine tree on left. Two barns and snow-covered fields in middle ground. Mountain and gray overcast sky in background. Signed and dated, lower right: "William H. Tomajan 29". Molded wood frame with gray-brown paint.
- Material:
- Textile
Oil on canvas - Dimensions:
- H-28.1 W-24.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Given to donor's parents by the artist. Donor's father was Rev. Carl Dana Skillin, who served as pastor in Hancock, where he met his wife, Viola Rose. They moved to Worcester, MA, where he was pastor of Old South Church. They had a summer home in Hancock, adjacent to the Osgood farm. They met William Tomajan in Worcester and invited him to their summer home. The house was later purchased by artist Lilla Cabot Perry, who moved it to another location in Hancock.
- Credit Line:
- Anonymous Gift
- Subjects:
- Abner Osgood Farm, Barns, Hancock, NH, Skatutakee Mountain, Winter
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