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Object Name
Oil Painting - "Old House at Polperro"
Object Number
1955-08-1
Description
Oil on canvas, landscape featuring a row of grey stone houses with a high bank in back. House in foreground with female figure in blue dress seated at foot of steps. Painted in monochromatic greys. Label on back "Old House at Polperro, Cornwall, England Exhibited at the National Academy, New York" Signed lower left "ADELAIDE DEMING"
Provenance
Exhibited at the National Academy in New York .
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
1903
Dimensions
14" x 10"
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