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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Oil Painting - "A Quiet Day"
Object Number
1964-11-13
Description
Oil on canvas. An English coastal village featuring grey stone buildings, a boat at anchor in the central foreground, a woman standing in the doorway of one of the buildings. Signed bottom right corner "Adelaide Deming" Label (no longer on back of painting - now in accession folder): "Adelaide Deming/Litchfield, Connecticut A Quiet Day/ 1909 $300. group I Class 2/(Adelaide Deming)/W. S. Budworth& Son, 424 West 52nd St., New York/ Miss Adelaide Deming/Litchfield, Connecticut."
Provenance
See 1954-10-2 for study of same scene.
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
1909
Dimensions
Painting: 25" x 32" Frame: 35 1/2" x 43 1/2"
Social Tags (experimental)
