Print, Photographic
- Title:
- The Old Homestead
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.207
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of "The Old Homestead," by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of red clapboard farmhouse and gray barn, apparently abandoned; tall green grass and wildflowers in foreground; tall deciduous trees next to house; conifer trees in distance; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to larger piece of wheat-colored paper, which in turn is adhered to larger piece of brown paper, forming a double 0.1" border. Brown paper is adhered to wheat-colored mat. Titled "The Old Homestead" in pencil below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil below photograph, right. Framed. Black backing paper with no label.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.9 W-13.25 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:
- Houses, Farmhouses, Barns, Abandoned farms, Flowers
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