Collections record Beta
Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Print
Object Number
1974-18-1
Description
White heavy stock paper - etching of seascape with two masted boats at pier with seaside shack. Handwritten pencil signature of "A T Van Laer" at lower right. Holograph in ink below: "with Christmas Greetings and the best wishes for the New Year/A.T. Van Laer/Litchfield 1914."
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
1914
Dimensions
5.5" x 6"
Social Tags (experimental)
