Old Homestead Connecticut
- Date
- c.1914
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- depicts
- Hadlyme, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
- made in
- Hadlyme, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- American Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 335
- Dimensions
- 26 x 29 in. (66 x 73.7 cm)
framed: 35 3/4 x 38 3/4 in. (90.8 x 98.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 253:1915
NOTES
Cool, bright moonlight bathes the Selden homestead, built before the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The large tree—as old as the house—casts its long shadow over the buildings, as the stars in the clear sky twinkle through its wide, protective branches. The homestead is located in Hadlyme, Connecticut, only 10 miles from where Willard Metcalf spent his summers painting as a member of the well known art colony in Old Lyme.
Provenance
- 1915
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY [1]
1915 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from M. Knoedler & Co. [2]
Notes:
[1] The artist's cash book mentions the 1915 sale from M. Knoedler & Co. to the Saint Louis Art Museum, perhaps indicating that the artist had consigned the work to Knoedler [p. 29 of artist's cash book, per catalog entry by Metcalf scholar Elizabeth G. de Veer, copy SLAM document files].
[2] Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co. dated October 2, 1915 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, November 17, 1915.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY [1]
1915 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from M. Knoedler & Co. [2]
Notes:
[1] The artist's cash book mentions the 1915 sale from M. Knoedler & Co. to the Saint Louis Art Museum, perhaps indicating that the artist had consigned the work to Knoedler [p. 29 of artist's cash book, per catalog entry by Metcalf scholar Elizabeth G. de Veer, copy SLAM document files].
[2] Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co. dated October 2, 1915 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, November 17, 1915.
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