Friday, April 18, 2014

Connecticut Art




West Rock, New Haven
 Frederic Edwin Church, Oil on canvas, 1849 New Britain Museum of American Art









Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut.
Artist: Charles Graham
Category: 18-19th Century Prints > Town Views
Location: Connecticut
Publisher: Harper's Weekly, New York.
Medium Used: Wood engraving with modern handcoloring,
Year: 1887.
Size: Image size 13 1/2 x 9 1/8".



Day's End, 1937 Martin Lewis drypoint on paper (The smokestack closest to the foreground of the image, which is blank in the charcoal drawing, reads “Danbury & Bethel Fur Co Inc” )



9:45 A.M. Accommodation, Stratford, Connecticut, April 1864
Oil on wood panel
Edward Lamson Henry, American, 1841–1919
Signed, lower right: E. L. Henry. 64
Signed, reverse: Edw. L. Henry, April 1864
W. 20" x H. 12.5"
(P-102-88)



Connecticut.-Scene on Charles Island-Capture of a Large Party of Roughs from New York City, who had Assembled to Witness a Prize-Fight - The Military Preparing to Surround the Island.
Category: 18-19th Century Prints > Town Views
Location: Connecticut
Publisher: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. April 30, 1870,
Medium Used: Wood engraving with modern hand coloring,
Year: 1870.
Size: Image size 9 1/4 x 14 1/4" (260 x 361 mm).



Millstone Cottage, Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Conn., Christmas Card, 1921; also called "Millestones".
John Taylor Arms



Bridgeport Conn. and Environs, From Old Mill Hill.
Category: 18-19th Century Prints > Town Views
Location: Connecticut
Publisher: Published by John Cornwall, 1 Sterlingblock, Bridgeport Conn.
Medium Used: Two-color handcolored lithograph,
Year: 1857.
Size: Image size 18 3/16 x 27 13/16" (461 x 707 mm





Chicken Yard Back of the Holley House, Childe Hassam, (1902) (Cos Cob)




Schooner in the Ice, View from the Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob, Connecticut
Elmer MacRae




Ralph Boyer, Westport WPA Art Committee





Compo Beach - Westport.
Artist: George Wright Drypoint,
Year: c. 1942.
Size: Image size 7 5/8 x 11 5/8" (194 x 295mm).




George Earle, Bridgeport Parking Lot, courtesy of Southbury Training School



Eastern View of Bridgeport, Con.
Artist: John Barber
Category: 18-19th Century Prints > Town Views
Location: Connecticut
Medium Used: Engraving,
Year: 1837-49.
Size: Image size 3 1/4 x 6" (82 x 151 mm).
Condition: Good condition with modern handcoloring.








Beatrice Cuming, Saturday Night, New London, 1938, Collection of the Lyman Allyn Museum



Trumbull St. Hartford, Conn.
Artist: Martin Lewis, American, born Australia, 1883-1962
Medium: Etching on paper
Dates: 1935