Painting
- Title:
- Log Cabin, Rocks Estate
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2020.007.03
- Creator:
- MacBeth, Helen (1838-1934)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Bethlehem, NH
- Date:
- 1875-1900
- Description:
- Landscape painting of Log Cabin, Rocks Estate, Bethlehem, NH, by Helen MacBeth (1838-1934). Oil on paper, adhered to paperboard mount. Log cabin in center, in forest clearing; blue mountain in left background. Inscribed in ink on piece of frame backing paper, "LOG CABIN / 'ROCKS' ESTATE / BETHLEHEM, N.H. / PAINTED BY HELEN MACBETH / (MRS. J.J.G.'s SISTER)". Previously framed, but frame not included with gift.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7 W-10 inches
- Provenance:
- From the estate of John Jacob Glessner (1843-1936) and his wife Frances MacBeth Glessner (1848-1932). Their summer estate in Bethlehem, NH, known as The Rocks, is now owned by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. The donor is the widow of Charles Foster Batchelder III (1930-2016), who was the great grandson of John J. and Frances Glessner. Mrs. Batchelder donated other museum and library items from The Rocks in 2018.
Helen MacBeth was the sister of Frances Glessner. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Mrs. Charles F. Batchelder III
- Subjects:
- White Mountains, Log cabins
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