Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Melody
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.100
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1940-1950
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of "Melody" (Carrabassett Birches, Maine), by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of river with birch trees and autumn foliage in foreground; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in river. Signed "Sawyer" in white ink on photograph, lower right. No mat. Framed. Original brown backing paper, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom left corner; titled "Melody" in brown ink along edge of the triangle. One of two prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-6 W-4 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, Rivers, Autumn
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