Painting

Title:

Franconia Notch

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

2021.007

Creator:

Stanwood, Franklin (1852-1888)Artist

Date:

1884

Description:

Landscape painting. "Franconia Notch," painted by Franklin Stanwood (1852-1888). Oil on canvas. Signed "FRANKLIN STANWOOD / 1884" on front, lower right. View of Franconia Notch looking north from Pemigewasset River valley. Stone wall and wooden fence in foreground, with jagged boulder or ledge just beyond; water and trees in middle ground; Mount Lafayette in right background; and Cannon Mountain in left background. Framed.

Material:

Textile

Dimensions:

H-40 W-50 inches

Provenance:

Franklin Stanwood, the adopted son of Captain Gideon L. and Elizabeth H. Stanwood, was born on March 16, 1852, at the Alms House, Portland, ME. Little is known of his early years beyond his study at the Gorham (ME) Academy during the mid-1860s and travel on sea voyages to Europe with his father and mother. He is also supposed to have studied art in Paris. Stanwood settled in Portland during the 1870s, where he found commissions for ship paintings, seascapes and landscape paintings. His paintings, landscapes, and portraits are represented in the collections of the Maine Historical Society, Portland Museum of Art, and Portland Public Library. Stanwood died of consumption on June 20, 1888 in Gorham, ME, and was buried in the Western Cemetery, Portland, ME. The painting was owned by the Signal Corporation (1983) prior to its purchase by the donor.

Credit Line:

Gift of Randall H. Bennett

People:

Stanwood, Franklin (1852-1888)

Subjects:

Franconia Notch, Franconia Range, Mount Lafayette, Cannon Mountain, Pemigewasset River, Stone walls, Fences