Drawing
- Title:
- Franconia State Park
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.036.02
- Creator:
- Wibel, Herman V. (1909-1980)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1970
- Description:
- Drawing of covered bridge, Franconia Notch, NH, by Herman V. Wibel (1909-1980). Black ink on illustration board. Horizontal rectangle. Roofed wooden bridge with open sides, viewed from road in front of bridge. Bridge has arched entrance with sign above arch: "PEMIGEWASSET RIVER". Fence on left, bordering a walkway (not visible) that crosses bridge on the outside. Window mat, unattached, titled in pencil at lower left, "Franconia State Park", and signed in pencil at lower right, "Wibel". Printed paper address label adhered to reverse of drawing: "HERMAN V WIBEL / PUMPKIN HL RD / WARNER N H 03278".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.9 W-10.9 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a group of seven covered bridge drawings presented by the artist to his friend Thomas Nugent of Jordan, NY, who gave the drawings to his sister, Elaine Smithson, the donor, in 2003.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Elaine Smithson
- People:
- Wibel, Herman V. (1909-1980)
- Subjects:
- Covered bridges, Flume, Franconia Notch, Pemigewasset River
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