The Clapboard House

Artist Fremont F. Ellis (American, 1897 - 1985)

Date1925

Mediumoil on panel

Dimensions24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Frame: 35 1/4 × 41 × 2 1/4 inches (89.5 × 104.1 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Nelda C. Stark, 2003

Object number31.20.29

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionHorizontal painting of a two story clapboard sided building with a shingle roof. Two dogs stand on the dirt lane by a row of flowers in front of the building. One of the lower windows on the building has bright yellow curtains.

Label TextThe clapboard house features wooden siding placed horizontally over a frame. The boards overlap each other to prevent water from entering. This painting depicts a common practice of not painting clapboard. The boards turn gray with exposure. Unfortunately, this house appears to have an area where the wood is rotting. Yet the bright curtains add a cheery note to the weathered house. The house was in Telluride, Colorado, a mining town.

ProvenanceArtist; purchased September 3, 1953 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; by inheritance to Nelda C. Stark [1909-1999]; Estate of Nelda C. Stark; bequeathed 2003 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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