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Leete Farm, West Claremont, New Hampshire, (painting). Artist:  Alexander, Francis, 1800-1880, painter. Title:  Leete Farm, West Claremont, New Hampshire, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1825. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  17 x 27 1/4 in. (43.2 x 69.2 cm). Description:  Farm landscape depicting a haying scene in the foreground and farm buildings in the background. In the foreground three farm workers rake the hay, while another pitches into a ox-drawn wagon, and another stands on top of the wagon, packing down the hay. All around them there are small piles of hay. Behind the field there is a fence with a farmhouse and farm buildings just behind. In the distance there are mountains dotted with trees. Subject:  Landscape -- Farm -- Leete Farm Landscape -- New Hampshire -- West Claremont Figure group -- Male Occupation -- Farm -- Harvesting Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Farmhouse Architecture exterior -- Farm -- Barn Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 1972.263.5 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Leete, James, West Claremont, New Hampshire Gowe, Bertha Leete, Limmerick, Maine until 1967. Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler, 1967-1972. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 438. Illustration:  Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 439. 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 36120852   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120852 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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