Windham Inn after the Storm, Jan. 3, 1903
PainterPainted by
Louis Grosvernor Frink
American, 1869 - 1956
DateJanuary 1934
MediumDrawing; watercolor and gouache on brown wove paper on cardboard
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 8 x 8 7/8in. (20.3 x 22.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 x 8 7/8in. (20.3 x 22.5cm)
Mount (height x width): 8 x 8 7/8in. (20.3 x 22.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 x 8 7/8in. (20.3 x 22.5cm)
Mount (height x width): 8 x 8 7/8in. (20.3 x 22.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineN.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income
DescriptionA two and a half story red inn building with two central red bick chimneys and a wrap-around porch. A thick layer of snow is on the ground. Leafless snow-covered trees surround the inn. Other buildings, one of them a shed, are on the left and right.
Object number1973.25.69
MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No. 69"InscribedOn verso, upper left, in pen, "Windham Inn / After the Storm / Jan 3rd 1903 / by Lou Frink / Jan 1934"Lower right, in pencil, accession number
[The notes written in pen on verso are in Lou’s handwriting; the pencil notes are not.]NotesThe Windham inn was constructed in 1783 and originally known as Windham House until 1890. Interestingly, no historical record show that the Inn was ever painted red like in Lou's depiction.
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