Card, Greeting
- Title:
- Connemara Farm
- Object Name:
- Card, Greeting
- Object ID:
- 2018.003.27.20
- Creator:
- Cosgrove, Alice (1909-1971)
Illustrator - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1969
- Description:
- Christmas card, Connemara Farm, Goffstown, NH, by Alice Cosgrove (1909-1971), Concord, NH. Dark green ink printed on paper, folded in half. Horizontal rectangle. Winter scene with extended farmhouse and barn, titled at bottom, "CONNEMARA FARM". Initials "AC" printed at right. Printed inside: "IN THE SPIRIT OF THIS SEASON / WE WISH YOU A / BLESSED CHRISTMAS / AND A NEW YEAR OF / HEALTH AND HAPPINESS"; signed in ink, "John and Anna King". Printed on back: "© JOHN W. KING, 1969".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.5 W-6.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Connemara Farm was the residence of John W. King (1918-1996), Governor of New Hampshire, 1963-1969.
The donor was director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, for which her friend Alice Cosgrove worked.
Artist Alice (Ericson) Cosgrove (1909-1971) was born in Concord and studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston after graduating from Concord High School in 1925. After completing school she married fellow artist Roland Cosgrove and settled in Boston. Alice Cosgrove returned to Concord and found work through the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project in 1935. During World War II she worked for Hoyt Electrical Instrument Works designing precision dials for equipment. In 1946, Cosgrove began working for the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, designing and producing a wide variety of promotional materials for the state. She is best remembered for her design of "Chippa Granite," the wholesome, freckled boy who was the face of New Hampshire tourism for more than a decade. Cosgrove retired and died in 1971. - Credit Line:
- Gift of the Estate of Mary Louise Hancock
- Subjects:
- Christmas, Christmas cards, Farms, Farm houses
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