Name/Title
Ink and Watercolor Drawing of 2037 Alameda Ave by Maidie, c. 1975Entry/Object ID
2025.50.1Description
Acc. No. 25.50.1
Subject Category: Homes of Alameda; Artists of Alameda
Date or Period: c. 1975
Object: drawing or painting, framed
Description: a pen and ink drawing of a residence, two-window rectangular bay extending to form a pitched roof dormer, with steps to a small front porch and more steps to a side porch on the left. The drawing has been hand-colored with tan and brown watercolor, and is behind slightly matte plexiglass and off-white mat, in original frame with two different strips of decorative gold-painted beaded wood sandwiching a strip of off-white wood. Signed 'Maidie' at left, under the steps to the side porch. The drawing is sealed off with unmarked tan backing paper.
Size: (frame) L 24 3/4 x W 22 inches.
History of Object: drawing of 2037 Alameda Avenue, by artist Marion (Maidie) Morrison (1915-2003). Morrison moved to Alameda in 1948. A print based on this painting was included for the month October in the 1975 calendar published by the Alameda Architectural (then Victorian) Preservation Society. 2037 Alameda Avenue is an Eastlake residence, built in 1882 by J.N. DeNise, original owner: Eugene Bissell, printer at the Oakland Tribune. The house looks still mostly like on the painting except it has lost the decorative millwork above the front porch. This original drawing hung in the Bay Farm Island library for many years; information of how it came to be at the library had been lost.
Acquired from: Lynda Williams,
Senior Librarian, Alameda Free Library
Donation Date: 12/3/2023
Catalog Date: 3/8/2025