N.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income, 1973.25.54, Connecticut Museum o…

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Thanksgiving

PainterPainted by Louis Grosvernor Frink American, 1869 - 1956

Date1930s

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

DescriptionDrawing of a large turkey with thick brown plumage with white patterns, a long rounded tail fan, and a stiff breast "beard". Its heads and necks are bare of plumage, but the beak has a prominent snood.

Object number1973.25.54

MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No. 54"InscribedOn recto, painted in red, lower right, "Thanksgiving / 193[cut]"

On verso, lower center, in pencil, "Title "Thanksgiving""

Lower right, in pencil, accession number

[recto writings are Lou's; pencil writings on back at not]

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