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Artist
Bessie J. Howard
Residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Gunn
Datec. 1938
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 13 5/8 × 18 in. (34.6 × 45.7 cm)
Object numberN0026.1974
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Denison H. Hatch
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextWilliam and Marion Gunn are best known as folk art collectors. Here, Howard has depicted their home in Newtonville, Massachusetts. During their married life of 38 years, the Gunns traveled widely and collected extensively. All told, they made three trips around the world before William died in 1952. A visitor to their house in the 1950s described it as a museum filled with possessions collected from all over the world. For reasons that are difficult to ascertain, William and Marion had collected some 600 folk art paintings and kept them in a barn on their Newtonville property. In the late 1950s 150 works from the Gunn’s collection were purchased by Stephen C. Clark for the Fenimore Art Museum.On View
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