N.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income, 1973.25.9, Connecticut Museum of…

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Jet Ripley Home, 1876

PainterPainted by Louis Grosvernor Frink American, 1869 - 1956

DateJuly 1946

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

DescriptionThis drawing depicts a white house with green shutters opening to windows and a central red chimney. A large verdant fan-like tree encloses the house. Landscape is vividly green. A stone wall is along the foreground.

Object number1973.25.9

MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No.9InscribedOn verso, throughout, in pen "Jet Ripley home / 1876 on n[cut] / [cut]e of Ripley family / [cut]thers all in war / of [cut]61 to 1865 / to sisters Mary and Eunice / by Lou Frink / Windham / Connecticut / July 1946 / Eleazer H. / Hezekiah / Jeremiah / Joshua / Nehemiah / Brothers"

Upper right, in pencil, accession number

[The notes written in pen on verso are in Lou’s handwriting; the pencil notes are not.]NotesThe Ripley family goes back to the early settlers of Windham. The house depicted in Frink's drawing is the Eleazar Fitch-John Ripley House and Store located at 19 Windham Green Road in Windham built in 1755. Some name on Frink's list are recognizable, such as Eleazer H. Ripley (1834 - 1925) who enlisted in 1861 as a Private in the 3rd Connecticut Infantry and eventually was promoted a Captain.

The name Nehemiah Ripley, one of the brothers listed in the back, appears in another one of Lou's drawing (1973.25.59).

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