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Painting

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1887

GUSN

GUSN-64639

Description

Rectangular wooden frame; glass; fresco depiction of the Richardson cousins (Alexander: 1881-1881; Lucy 1879?; Gardner 1884?; Dorothy 1887”?) as infants on light blue background. Taken from the ceiling of the Bowen's Brooklyn house at 90 Willow Street.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fragments
plaster
paintings (visual works)
Unidentified Painting
Plaster
PICTURE, PORTRAIT

Associated Person

Richardson, Gardner, 1884-1972
Richardson, Dorothy, b. 1887

Associated Building

Subject Bowen Family House (Brooklyn, N.Y.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Brooklyn, NY

Dimensions

19 3/4 x 15 3/8 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.605

Places

New York state (United States)

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