Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Portal of the Woods
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.216
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Farmington, ME
- Date:
- 1906-1920
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of "Portal of the Woods," by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Farmington, Maine. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of two large trees (birch on right) straddling path into dark forest. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Portal of the Woods" in pencil below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil below photograph, right. Imprinted "COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY CHARLES H. SAWYER" in white on photograph, bottom right. Framed. Brown backing paper, not original.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-13.5 W-10.5 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:
- Forests, Woods, Trees, Birch trees, Paths
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