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Oil Painting - "Afternoon in October"

2013-113-1

Oil on canvas painting executed in a pastel palette by Adelaide Deming. Scene depicts a Litchfield County landscape view with rolling hills, trees, rocks, and buildings. A wooden fence stretches left to right across the foreground with a grouping of trees on either end of the fence. A grouping of four buildings are located on the right side, mid-field, with a clump of large trees on the left in the distance. the background shows another building surrounded by trees on the right side of the canvas just before the horizon line. "ADELAIDE DEMING" signed in black paint on lower right corner. Painting is stretched on original stretcher and has been placed in a modern gold painted wooden frame. "No 5 Afternoon in October" written in pencil on back of stretcher.

This painting was executed locally in Litchfield County, more specifically it may have been painted in "South Plains," Litchfield looking down from Morris.

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.

• Deming, Adelaide, 1864-1956

Frame 14 3/4" H x 16 3/4" W; Work 8" H x 10 1/4" w

• oil
• canvas
• wood
• paint