Print, Photographic
- Title:
- The Swimming Pool
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.178
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of "The Swimming Pool," Ausable Chasm, NY, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of waterfall dropping into blue pool in limestone gorge; autumn foliage on each side of gorge; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "The Swimming Pool" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper with printed label in bottom right corner: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [blank] Price [blank] If it isn't a Sawyer Picture / it isn't the Best."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.3 W-2.8 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, Autumn
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