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Exhibition History“Grandma Moses and the ‘Primitive Tradition,’” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, June 11, 2011 – October 30, 2011.
Artist
Sarah Oldcott Hawley Van Ness
(1809 - 1870)
Hawley Homestead
Date1830-1835
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSight: 8 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (21.6 × 34.3 cm)
Object numberN0172.1959
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Alleine Langford
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis detailed watercolor includes the house, at right, built by John Easton Hawley in Broadalbin, NY in 1812, along with other outbuildings, a mill, and an orchard on the property. The young woman who executed this picture of her family home took great pains to include details such as shutters, draperies, vines, fences, and vehicles, yet chose to cut and paste an oxen at left from a print.Exhibition History“Grandma Moses and the ‘Primitive Tradition,’” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, June 11, 2011 – October 30, 2011.
On View
Not on viewc. 1885-1887
