N.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income, 1973.25.78, Connecticut Museum o…

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Harry Page Place, 1870

PainterPainted by Louis Grosvernor Frink American, 1869 - 1956

Date1936

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)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineN.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income

DescriptionA side view of a large white house features open green shutters, two rounded entry steps, and a central red chimney. Deciduous trees surround the home, set within a lightly snow‑covered landscape. Along one side runs a white picket fence, and a stone border lines the foreground.

Object number1973.25.78

MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No. 78"InscribedOn verso, upper center, in pen, "Henry Page Place 1870 / Then J. K. Lockman 1889 / Then - Miss Anna Claassen 1916 / Then - Mrs Adams 1937 / to / Then the Presuit Owners 1941"

Lower right, in pencil, accession number

[The notes written in pen on verso are in Lou’s handwriting; the pencil notes are not.]NotesOn the back of the drawing, Lou wrote down all of the people and families who lived in the house depicted from 1870 to 1941.
Among those are:

- Henry Page (1844 - 1893) who appears as a member of the Congregational Church of Windham, CT and original owner of the house in 1870;
- J. K. Lockman, in 1889;
- Miss Anna Claasen, in 1916, who was a secretary at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Willimantic, CT;
- Mrs. Adams, in 1937;
- the Presuit family, who became owners of the house in 1941.

Henry Page's house appears in another one of Lou's drawings (1973.25.19)

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