Print, Photographic

Title:

Rainbow Falls & Triple Cascade

Object Name:

Print, Photographic

Object ID:

2022.007.097

Creator:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1940-1950

Description:

Hand-painted photograph of Rainbow Falls and Triple Cascade, Watkins Glen, NY, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View looking up through Watkins Glen gorge, with red-brown rock walls on each side, Rainbow Falls flowing over wall on left, and Triple Falls in center. Signed "Sawyer" in white ink on photograph, lower left. No mat. Framed. Original brown backing paper, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom right corner; separate brown printed paper label adhered to left edge: "Rainbow Falls & Triple Cascade / WATKINS GLEN, NEW YORK / Is a State Park in the town of Watkins on Seneca Lake, / one of the well known Five Finger Lakes. This natural wonder / consists of a series of narrow glens, nearly two miles in length, / abounding in beautiful and fantastic cascades. Curious rock for- / mations and tumbling waters combine to form a fairyland of natu- / ral beauty. / THE SAWYER PICTURES, / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE". Original brass hanger.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-5.75 W-4.5 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:

Gorges, Waterfalls