Smithy
PainterPainted by
Louis Grosvernor Frink
American, 1869 - 1956
Date1947
MediumDrawing; pencil, watercolor, and gouache on brown paper on cardboard
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)
Sheet (height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)
Mount (height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)
Sheet (height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)
Mount (height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineN.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income
DescriptionThe drawing depicts the interior of the blacksmith shop from the entrance with a wooden door. Inside is the behind of a white hore with a black tail. A narrow vertical window to the right of a blacksmith forging a horseshoe (for the white horse) in front of a lit stone furnace. The blacksmith, wearing a black hat, short, black vest, and tan trousers, uses the iron tongs to transfer the horseshoe from the furnace to the anvil. Around him are a shovel and two barrels.
Object number1973.25.42
MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No. 42"InscribedOn verso, upper left, in pen, "Smithy / 1945 / Lou Frink"Lower right, in pencil, accession number
[The notes written in pen on verso are in Lou’s handwriting; the pencil notes are not.]NotesIt is likely that the man's identity is Rufus Rood who appears in another Lou Frink drawing called "Blacksmith in Blue Shirt" (1973.25.41).
The blacksmith shop and/or Rufus Rood the blacksmith, are depicted in several other Frink drawings such as 1973.25.19; 1973.25.40; 1973.25.41; 1973.25.42; 1973.25.64; 1973.25.86.
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Louis Grosvernor Frink
