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Box 3

 Container

Contains 18 Results:

Figures of the Thirties: Character Sketches in Oil by Ferner Nuhn

 Item — Box: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents

This collection of paintings from Ferner Nuhn portrays fellow colonists of myself and his wife Ruth Suckow in the early 1930s at Yaddo, the art colony near Saratoga Springs, New York. Individuals from the MacDowell Colongy in Peterborough, New Hampshire is also represented. It should be noted that the John Cowper Powys, Henry A. Wallace, and Robert Frost were made later in other circumstances (note from the collection description).

Dates: 1887-1988

Leo Fisher, Yaddo, 1933

 Item — Box: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents

Photographic negative included.

Dates: 1933

Ruth Suckow with Cat, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1940

 Item — Box: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents

On the back of this painting is a a sketch of the cat SnowWhite that Ferner Nuhn started, but never finished.

Dates: 1940