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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Pastel
Object Number
1971-24-0
Description
Pastel on board. River in foreground, hill pasture with trees rising on opposite bank in soft spring foliage, with granite outcroppings, a bit of cloudy sky at top. Back has Kent Art Association label with artist's name and title "Spring Color" scratched out. "Bank of the River" written in. In red, "A. Purves" (Austin Purves) who presumably transported the pastel to exhibition for Miss Deming.
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
Dimensions
Frame 14 1/2" x 18 1/2"; Work 10 1/2" x 14"
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