Print, Photographic

Title:

The Country Highway

Object Name:

Print, Photographic

Object ID:

2022.007.191

Creator:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1920-1940

Description:

Hand-painted photograph of "The Country Highway," Weld, Maine, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of dirt road in foreground, running toward blue Tumbledown Mountain in distance; fields and trees on each side of road, with autumn foliage; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "The Country Highway" in pencil below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil below photograph, right. Framed. Newer brown backing paper covering original brown paper; printed label on original paper, lower left, revealed through cutout in new paper: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [52J in pencil] Price [worn] / Sawyer Pictures [are the Qual- / ity Pictures of New England.]".

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-5.9 W-9.55 inches

Provenance:

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

Another example of this image, found online, has the original printed descriptive label on the back: "THE COUNTRY HIGHWAY / by Sawyer / Here are distant mountains, lake and dusty road happily combined / in a panorama of unusual beauty. Such varied landscape, in this instance / near Weld, Maine, is typical of rural New England. Even the lazily floating / clouds have an air of belonging. The strip of blue is Lake Webb, and the / rugged mountain is, most appropriately, Tumbledown. / THE SAWYER PICTURES, / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE".

Credit Line:

John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs

People:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)

Subjects:

Tumbledown Mountain, Lake Webb, Dirt roads, Autumn