Description
Frederick Sweet,Chicago Art Institute's Associate Curator, traces road that led to James Fenimore Cooper's home in painting done by Samuel F.B. Morse ( he invented the telegraph, too) in early Cooperstown, N.Y. It is one of 164 time-mellowed paintings found by sweet along a laborious, 10,000-mile trial for exhibition entitled "The Hudson River School." The display in the Chicago Art institute, Until March 25, is scheduled for the Whitney Museum in New York April 17-May 18.
Photo is dated 1945.
Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches.