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Oil on canvas of a country landscape with two barns. A small wall of piled rocks divides the farm land into four sections. The trees are turning color and there is a blue sky with clouds.
oil paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Painting
"Artful Stories": A Massachusetts native, Charles Davis decided to pursue art after visiting a Boston exhibition of landscapes in the French Barbizon manner, a style evident in the Bannister and Longfellow paintings in this gallery. After training in France, he settled in Mystic, Connecticut, where he became well known for his cloudscapes. Many of his paintings, like this one, utilized a low horizon that calls viewers attention to this regions ever-changing cloud formations.
"270/8" (handwritten)
"#18" (In blue crayon)
"8-9093 hold - " (In pencil)
"20" (handwritten)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P347
FA033
Davis, Charles Harold, 1856-1933 (Artist)
Mystic, Connecticut, United States
42 1/2 x 50 1/4 x 2 13/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.770
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