"Village Room"

inscription:

.01: verso, graphite, "Village Room/ .75/ Where first exhibit was held"; "Return to Miss E. [Eleanor] Arms Mrs. Pem[ ]/ Deerfield, Mass."; wetstamp, "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ DEERFIELD, MASS,/ All Rights Reserved."; "Photos by the Misses Allen" .02: verso, ink, "Village Room, Deerfield, Mass./ (Before enlargement"; "Village Room/ .75" wetstamp, "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ DEERFIELD, MASS,/ All Rights Reserved."

description:

One-story, lattice-windowed building with barn in background at left.

significance note:

.01 has inscription "Where first exhibit was held" on verso.

references:

A print with this title was listed in the sisters' catalogs of 1905, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914 & 1920. Reproduced in McGowan and Miller, "Family and Landscape", 1996, p.33. Reproduced article in "The Outlook," November 2, 1901, "Handcrafts in Old Deerfield" by Mary E. Allen. Reproduced in Good Housekeeping 48, no. 3, March 1909: 290. Reproduced in Suzanne L. Flynt, Poetry to the Earth: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield, Deerfield, MA, 2012 page number 25 , figure number 25.

keywords:

Arts and Crafts
Buildings and Outbuildings