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Object Name
Oil Painting - "Willows in Spring"
Object Number
1954-10-3
Description
An oil on canvas landscape painting featuring a meandering stream cutting through a meadow, along the banks are willows and fresh olive leaves, all in strong sunlight, hills in the background. Painted in Litchfield, location unknown. Signed lower left: "ADELAIDE DEMING" Label on back: "Willows in Spring/Rec'd Honorable Mention/at exh. of Connecticut Academy."
Comment
Adelaide Deming was an artist and educator working largely in New York, although she kept a residence in Litchfield. She studied at the Art Students League and with artists like William Merritt Chase. She taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1902 to 1910. Deming was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Paint and Clay Club of New Haven, the Kent Art Association, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the American Watercolor Society.
Category
Date Made
ca. 1920
Dimensions
Painting: 18" x 24"; Frame: 22" x 28"
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