View of Cheapside

inscription:

Label reads, "View of Cheapside, Deerfield/ looking south toward Deerfield. Factory/ of Russell Cutlery visible at right./ Circa 1850." Exhibition label on back: "George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum/ 222 State Street on the Quadrangle/ Springfield, Massachusetts 01103/ 'View of Cheapside, Greenfield/ unknown artist/ oil on canvas/ Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield/ T.C. 81.3.88'/ Return postage guaranteed" Inscription on upper stretcher: "John Russell/ Cutlery Company/ and Neighborhood/ when site was a/ part of Deerfield." On center stretcher: "M.M. Ross/ [Boston]/ 25 x 30"

description:

Mountains on left rear with rows of white and beige houses in foreground. Green foliage, river meanders through center. Train in left center, with RR trestle over river to its right. Brown road runs along front edge.

references:

Reproduced in "Gathered and Preserved," PVMA, 1991, p.48; Exhibited in 2010-2013 Memorial Hall Museum exhibit, "Changes on the Horizon."

keywords:

Art
Bridges
Buildings and Outbuildings
Commerce, Business, Trade, Exchange
Deerfield River
Factories, Mills, Industry
Immigrants, Newcomers
Railroads
Work