Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Mount Katahdin
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.130
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1946
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Mount Katahdin, Maine, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of Mount Katahdin across lake, with birch trees in foreground; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Mount Katahdin" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper, with no Sawyer imprint or label; inscribed "Herbert ...... Wedding Gift ...... 1946" in green ink along top edge; retailer's printed label, upper right: "The Picture and / Gift Shop, Inc. / 13 Hammond St. / BANGOR / MAINE". One of two prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.35 W-5.75 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:
- Mount Katahdin, Lakes & ponds, Birch trees
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