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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Watercolor - "County Court House"
Object Number
1975-104-1
Description
Watercolor executed in a dark palette. Scene depicting a view of the Litchfield, CT court house from the town green on a rainy day. Green lawn in the foreground with two stone hitching posts. Beyond the grass is a street wet with rain. Four figures are seen walking in front of a large gray, stone building with a clock tower. Red brick buildings flank it on either side.
Comment
Alexander Theobald Van Laer was born in Auburn, New York. He studied at the Art Students League in the city and abroad in the Netherlands, later becoming an educator and a leading landscape painter in the Tonalist style. Van Laer began painting in Litchfield in 1893, where he would have been a close friend of Adelaide Deming, an artist and fellow member of the American Watercolor Society. Van Laer purchased a house in Litchfield in 1911.
Category
Date Made
1913
Dimensions
Height 17 3/4"; Width 12 5/8"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
