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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Pastel - "Bank of the River"
Object Number
1974-24-0
Description
Pastel drawing with river in foreground and landscape climbing uphill behind river. Rocky formation about halfway up. Landscape dotted with trees - more nondescript in background. Signed bottom right hand corner "Adelaide Deming." Deming uses a soft palette - purples, green with touches of pink and aqua blues. Framed under glass. Wooden frame, gilded.
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
ca. 1910
Dimensions
14 1/2" high x 18 1/2" wide
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