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Wilson, Ellen Axson,
Landscape -- Connecticut
Landscape -- Road
Landscape -- Tree
Painting
The Lane, (painting).
Artist:
Wilson, Ellen Axson, 1860-1914, painter.
Title:
The Lane, (painting).
Other Titles:
Old Lane, (painting).
Dates:
1909.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
45 x 60 in.
Inscription:
(Lower right:) E. A. Wilson / '09 signed
Description:
Large trees surrounding a dirt lane on the Noyes property in Lyme, Connecticut.
Subject:
Landscape -- Connecticut -- Lyme
Landscape -- Road
Landscape -- Tree
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Roberts, Layton, 309 East 2nd Avenue, Rome, Georgia 30161
Exhibitions:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts One Hundred Eighth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1913, (no. 487).
Remarks:
The work was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts One Hundred Eighth Annual Exhibition with the title "The Old Lane." The painting was also exhibited in Ellen Axson Wilson's one-woman show at the Arts and Crafts Guild, Philadelphia, 1913. The painting was one of two Ellen Axson Wilson paintings featured in the Ladies' Home Journal (May 1913). According to the article, the paintings were "regarded by her as among the best she has ever painted." IAP files contain copies of the pages from Ladies' Home Journal (May 1913) with illustration and descriptive text for the painting.
References:
Aucella, Frank J., and Patricia A. Piorkowski Hobbs, "Ellen Axson Wilson: First Lady-Artist," Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson House, 1993, no. 23.
Ladies' Home Journal 30 (May 1913): pg. 18.
Roberts, Layton, 2015, 2016.
Illustration:
Ladies' Home Journal 30 (May 1913): pg. 18.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 88440012
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