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Object Name
Watercolor Painting - Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe
Object Number
1930-09-14
Description
Watercolor of building with sign "YE OLD CURIOSITY SHOPPE" on the front and a tree to the right.
Comment
Alexander Theobald Van Laer was born in Auburn, New York. He studied at the Art Students League in the city and abroad in the Netherlands, later becoming an educator and a leading landscape painter in the Tonalist style. Van Laer began painting in Litchfield in 1893, where he would have been a close friend of Adelaide Deming, an artist and fellow member of the American Watercolor Society. Van Laer purchased a house in Litchfield in 1911.
Category
Communication Artifacts
Maker
Date Made
1917
Dimensions
21 1/2 x 20 inches framed
Materials
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Watercolor Painting - Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe