Print, Photographic

Title:

Birch Moorage

Object Name:

Print, Photographic

Object ID:

2022.007.195

Creator:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1920-1940

Description:

Hand-painted photograph of "Birch Moorage," Lake Morey, VT, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of lake with birch trees and green canoe in left foreground; autumn foliage; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Birch Moorage" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Brown backing paper with attached printed paper label, bottom center: "THE BIRCH MOORAGE / by Sawyer / Along the shore of Lake Morey, Vermont, where, dur- / ing the Summer months, several hundred boys and girls play and / study in well equipped camps. Numerous lakes in this section / about Fairlee and Thetford are largely devoted to such camps. / A companion picture is 'Ladies of the Woods'. / THE SAWYER PICTURES, / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE".

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-5.75 W-4.4 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:

Lake Morey, VT, Lakes & ponds, Canoes, Birch trees