Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Taconic Trail
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.007
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1930-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of "Taconic Trail," by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View overlooking highway, with birch trees in foreground; blue sky with white clouds. Photograph is adhered to larger piece of brown paper, creating a 0.1" border. Brown paper is adhered to wheat-colored mat. Titled in brown ink below photograph, at left, "Taconic Trail". Signed in brown ink below photograph, at right, "Sawyer". Framed. Original brown paper on back of frame, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom right corner; "60" in pencil. Original brass hanger.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.1 W-3 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
- Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Birch trees, Scenic overlooks
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