Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Cypress Poiunt, Monterey
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.240
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1940-1950
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Cypress Point, Monterey, CA, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of rocky promontory jutting into blue ocean; tall cypress tree in right foreground; blue sky with pink clouds. Signed "Sawyer" in white ink on photograph, lower right. No mat. Framed. Brown backing paper, not original, titled "Cypress Point, Monterey" in brown ink, lower left. Printed label taped to backing paper, top left: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [blank] Price [6.20 in pencil] / If it isn't a Sawyer Picture / it isn't the Best."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-13.75 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:
- Cypresses, Seascape photographs
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