N.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income, 1973.25.3, Connecticut Museum of…

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N.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income, 1973.25, Connecticut Museum of C…

Miller Hill

PainterPainted by Louis Grosvernor Frink American, 1869 - 1956

DateMay 1937

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 depicts a rhythmic line of wooden and white utility poles leading the eyes toward a distant farmland where two prominent red silos stand amid red‑and‑white houses and lush green trees and hills.

Object number1973.25.3

MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No. 3"InscribedOn verso, lower right, in pen, "Miller Hill / May 1937 / 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.]

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