Farmhouse Scene, (painting).

Farmhouse Scene, (painting).

Unknown, painter.

Farmhouse Scene, (painting).

11 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (28.3 x 46.0 cm).

The farmhouse of Elihu and Helen Nye in Falmouth, Massachusetts, which was built by Elihu's father Joshua Nye, and still stands today. Cattle and farm hands are seen working in the yard to the side of the farmhouse. In the foreground, a horse-drawn carriage travels down a dirt road.

Landscape -- Farm

Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Farmhouse

Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Nye

Animal -- Cattle

Occupation -- Farm

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1969.77

Formerly in the collection of Nye, Elihu & Helen, Falmouth, Massachusetts ca. 1840.

Nye, Elihu, Mrs. (Helen), Falmouth, Massachusetts 1882-1917.

Nye, Miss, Sandwich, Massachusetts 1917.

Gift of Wilbur, Howard, Mrs. (Elizabeth Nye), Wethersfield, Connecticut 1969.

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 837.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 531.

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