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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Oil Painting - "A Quiet Day"
Object Number
1954-10-2
Description
Oil on canvas landscape painting entitled "A Quiet Day" An English village scene, featuring grey stone buildings, sailboat at anchor in foreground, woman standing at the door of building. Painted at Polperro, Cornwall, England in 1903. Signed in lower left corner "ADELAIDE DEMING" A copy or study for 1964-11-13.
Provenance
Exhibited at the MacDowell Club March 7 to 17, 1914.
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
Painting: "14" x 18"; Frame: 22" x 26"
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