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12-19-2011, 07:40 AM | #1 |
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Lake Winnipesaukee Samuel W Griggs
Has anyone ever seen this painting by Samuel W Griggs.
Trying figure out where this is on the lake. (Best guess - leaving Wolfeboro ??) He painted all over the White Mountains from 1850 until he died in 1892. I found reference to this original painting being sold for $14,000 in 2008 at an auction on Cape Cod. I really like it and was wondering if anyone has ever seen any posters or reprints. http://www.askart.com/askart/g/samue..._w_griggs.aspx
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12-19-2011, 04:52 PM | #3 |
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Looks like he added saw mill, dropped one of the kids and cut down the birch trees. I wonder if what really happened was he sold the first one and had a customer for another so he painted a new one.
Still interesting, based on the rough date of the mid 1870's, this was before the railroads. (I think) Travel from Boston to Winni must have been a bear.
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He was the Thomas Kincaid of his age. I like his work, because it is "of the age", but I don't think his paintings have any geologic reference points, other than a general local view. His "Rattlesnake Island" mountain seems to have endured a couple million years of erosion. Would I pay a couple of grand for a painting that was painted by a guy, of Winnipesaukee, who died the year my grandfather was born? Yeah, probably. If I had the cash.
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