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Blue Flowers by Water

Collection Type

  • Art

GUSN

GUSN-202730

Description

Watercolor paintings of a slightly abstracted landscape. The scene is of an ascending green hill with a large cluster of tall, blue flowers. In the far distance there is a body of water. Beyond is another vibrant landscape of fields. The sky makes up about half of the painting and is blue.

Details

Descriptive Terms

watercolors (paintings)
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
Painting

Inscription

"M.M. Brooks" (handwritten)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P250
FA101

Maker

Brooks, Mary Mason, 1860-1915 (Painter)

Dimensions

15 3/16 x 22 1/16 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.673

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