Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Banks of the Hoosac
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.249
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of "Banks of the Hoosac," by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of rippling Hoosac River with deciduous trees on each side, including large trees in right foreground; shrubbery with autumn foliage; blue sky with pink clouds, reflected in the river. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Banks of the Hoosac" in pencil below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper with printed label, lower left: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / Sawyer Pictures are the Qual- / ity Pictures of New England."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.6 W-7.4 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
The Hoosac River starts in Massachusetts and Vermont, flows into New York, and joins the Hudson north of Troy. - Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Rivers, Hoosac River
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