N.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income, 1973.25.39, Connecticut Museum o…

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Old Warner Place

PainterPainted by Louis Grosvernor Frink American, 1869 - 1956

DateJanuary 1934

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 white house, with multiple windows with green shutters, two red chimneys, and an entrance with small stone steps on the right facade. A small shed is on the right of the main house. Dark thin, deciduous trees are depicted on the center of the painting, while two rows of short stone walls anchor the foreground.

Object number1973.25.39

MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No. 39"InscribedOn verso, upper left, in pen, "Water color. / Old Warner, Place, / by Lou Frink / Jan 1974 "

Lower right, in pencil, accession number

[The notes written in pen on verso are in Lou’s handwriting; the pencil notes are not.]NotesSeveral "Warner" families can be found in Windham.

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