Painting
- Title:
- Winter Landscape
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2024.041.06
- Creator:
- Palmer, Adelaide C. (1851-1928) -- Artist
- Date:
- circa 1887
- Description:
- Painting. Winter Landscape, by Adelaide Palmer (1851-1928) of Piermont, NH, and Boston, MA, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1887, not framed.
- Dimensions:
- H-12 W-16 inches
- Provenance:
- Adelaide Palmer was born in 1851 to farmers Henry and Rosette Palmer, and grew up in Piermont, New Hampshire. In the late 1870s and early 1880s she worked in Concord and Manchester as an artist before enrolling at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1882. In Boston she studied with painter John Joseph Enneking (1841-1916). Palmer divided her time between Boston and Piermont, working as an artist and teacher. In her painting she focused on landscapes and still lifes. This painting descended in the family from Adelaide Palmer to the donors. Adelaide Palmer (1851-1928) to her sister, Lucy Ann Palmer Underhill (1847-1886) to her daughter, Rosette May Underhill Winn (1881-1952) to her son, William Horace Winn (1924-1967) to the current donors, twin sisters, Jo Ann Winn (b. 1954) and Janet Winn Cheney (b. 1954).
- Credit Line:
- Given in memory of Adelaide Palmer by descendants near and far, Caretakers: Winn Family
- People:
- Palmer, Adelaide C. (1851-1928)
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