Rug
- Object Name:
- Rug
- Object ID:
- 2024.011
- Creator:
- Neary, Marjorie Lund (1916-2002) -- Artist
- Place of Origin:
- Hollis, NH
- Date:
- 1951-1954
- Description:
- Rug, Hooked. Hooked rug stair runner made by Marjorie Lund Neary (1916-2002), Hollis, NH, 1951-1954. Wool, burlap. The runner is hooked with fourteen scenes that appear to depict rural life in New England. The hooked scenes include two horses with a driver pulling logs on a sled, deer eating apples in an orchard, Daniel Webster's birthplace in Franklin, a covered wagon, a covered bridge, Millicent Gardner's house in Hollis, cows in a pasture, harvested wheat, a sleigh in the winter, the Wayside Inn's Gristmill in Sudbury, MA, sugar tapping, two children walking to a schoolhouse, chickens in a yard, and a cabin in the mountains.
- Material:
- Wool
- Dimensions:
- W-26.25 L-261 inches
- Provenance:
- Marjorie Lund Neary (1916-2002) hooked the stair runner for her aunt Millicent Scott Gardner. The stair runner was intended to be used in Millicent's house at 80 South Merrimack Road, Hollis, NH, which is depicted on the stair runner in the scene above the covered bridge. Marjorie belonged to a rug hooking group in town named the Happy Hookers, as did her mother Christine.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Kathleen Neary Therrien, Patricia Neary Hayward, and Heather Neary Miller
- Subjects:
- Daniel Webster Birthplace
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