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Print, Photographic

Title:
Lake Memphremagog
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Object ID:
2022.007.032
Creator:
Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist
Place of Origin:
Concord, NH
Date:
1940-1950
Description:
Hand-painted photograph of Lake Memphremagog, Vermont, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of large blue lake; trees with autumn foliage in foreground; mountains in distance; blue sky with white and pink clouds. No mat. Signed "Sawyer" in white ink on photograph, lower right. Framed. Original brown paper on back of frame, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom right corner. Titled "Lake Memphremagog" in brown ink along edge of the triangle. One of two different photographs of Lake Memphremagog together in original black cardboard box.
Material:
Paper
Dimensions:
H-4 W-6 inches
Provenance:
One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.

Lake Memphremagog is between Newport, VT, and Magog, Quebec.
Credit Line:
John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
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