Print, Photographic

Title:

Peaceful Sentinels

Object Name:

Print, Photographic

Object ID:

2022.007.075

Creator:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1945

Description:

Hand-painted photograph of "Peaceful Sentinels," by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of birch trees and stone wall in foreground; autumn foliage; blue sky with white and pink clouds. Signed "Sawyer" in white ink on photograph, lower right. No mat. Framed. Original brown paper on back of frame, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." in triangle in bottom left corner; titled "Peaceful Sentinels" in brown ink along edge of the triangle. Four separate ink inscriptions on backing paper: "To Mrs. Hadley / from Erma Murdock / Christmas 1945"; "To Agnes because she has been good / to us / from / Mrs. Hadley"; "Given to me by Agnes / 1974 / (Rena)"; "To Pat from Mon / Dec 4 1985". One of three prints from same negative.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-13 W-10 inches

Provenance:

One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.

Christmas gift, 1945. History of ownership on backing paper, as noted in description.

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, Stone walls, Christmas presents