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Object Name
Oil Painting - "French Village, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands"
Object Number
1964-11-9
Description
Oil on canvas landscape painting of a village in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, church on top of hill with houses scattered below, mountains in background, two palm trees in right foreground. Label: "French village, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. A little group of French settled here & always stayed together though island was Danish and now American." Signed lower right: "ADELAIDE DEMING"
Provenance
Painting was exhibited at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.
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
Communication Artifacts
Maker
Dimensions
Painting: "24" x 24"; Frame: "28" x 28"
Materials
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Oil Painting - "French Village, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands"