Print, Photographic

Title:

Berkshire Hills

Object Name:

Print, Photographic

Object ID:

2022.007.234

Creator:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1920-1940

Description:

Hand-painted photograph of Berkshire Hills, MA, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of gray road with gray wooden guardrail on left side; rocky gray slope in right foreground; trees with autumn foliage on each side; blue hills in distance; blue sky with white and pink (now tan) clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Berkshire Hills" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper with printed label, lower left: "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." Backing paper inscribed in ink, upper left: "To Pearl & Dud- / With love and best wishes / From Bridel & Billy". Retailer's printed label on backing paper, top center: "HUNTER / The Stationer / STATIONERY-ENGRAVING / [WALLACE] NUTTING PICTURES / [?] Main Street / BROCKTON / MASS."

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-7.3 W-9.6 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:

Mountain roads, Autumn