Vintage Charles Sawyer Signed Hand Tinted Photograph ~ Dixville Notch
$ 7.92
Description
Vintage Charles Sawyer Signed Photograph ~ Dixville Notch. The front of the frame measures 6 1/2" X 5 1/4" X 1/2" thick. The inside of the back measures 5 3/4" X 4 1/2". It is signed Sawyer in the bottom corner and on the back in pencil - Dixville Notch and printed -The Sawyer Pictures, Concord N.H. The photograph pictures a winding dirt road with the mountains in the background and colorful trees, shrubs and wildflowers in the foreground. The photograph is clean. There is a small metal hanger on the back. This is behind glass and there may be glare or shadows from the camera. View my other auctions for another Sawyer and several Wallace Nutting's this week. I do combine shipping. Of Note: Charles Sawyer 1868 - 1954. In the 1890s Sawyer began his career as a portrait artist, a painter, and then as a photographer in Providence, Rhode Island. He worked with the well-known photo painter Wallace Nutting. Sawyer learned the painting and coloring techniques that would move his black and white photographic art to another level. Using watercolor, gouache and oil paints, Sawyer began transforming his black and white photographs into images of glowing landscapes, in many ways reminiscent of the Hudson River School of oil painters. He maintained his studio on Main Street in Farmington from 1904 until 1918. In order to be closer to the scenic areas of New Hampshire's White Mountains, the initial focus of Charles' work, the Sawyers left Farmington in the early 1920s and moved to Concord, New Hampshire – a move that would last a lifetime.
