Watercolor sketch of the Octagon Room at Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Pale purple chaise longue in front of a large arched window with purple-red curtains. Dark paneled walls.
watercolors (paintings)
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
Painting
"OCTAGON ROOM/AFTERNOON SUN" (Handwriten in pencil, capital letters)
"Paul Hollister/done mid-to late 1940s" (Handwritten pencil script)
"Caroline---/Thought you/might like this/little sketch, done/sometime in the/40s./Paul/Where is the chaise?" (Handwritten script, black ink on Corning Hilton Inn notepaper)
Subject Beauport (Gloucester, Mass.),
50.1
748
Hollister, Paul M., 1918-2004 (Artist)
United States
8 1/8 x 6 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Caroline B. Stride
2010.24.1
Gloucester (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
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