Painting - Untitled (three carousel horses)

Entry/Object ID

1985.FB.136

Description

Oil painting on canvas depicts three carousel horses facing object left. Background is green leaves with blue, orange highlights. Varnished. On wooden stretcher. In gilt and red wooden and plaster frame with scroll and fleur-de-lis decoration, rabbet (original frame). Artist:FCB. Untitled. Painted at Bonnet House (?). Written in pencil on back of frame: 7270/26X37/(?)/SANDED/PANEL/1/231292//. See B411 for pencil sketch. Collected at artist's studio in Beverly, Mass. This painting of was one of the paintings stolen from the Bartletts' Beverly, MA, studio around 1985. It was recovered by Mrs. Bartlett's personal representative at Northern Trust Bank, Ray George. A similar one was painted by Frederic's son, Clay. Frederic Clay Bartlett's grand daughter Elizabeth "Libby" Bartlett Sturges had similar painting.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil paint, Canvas, Oil on Canvas

Made/Created

Artist

Bartlett, Frederic Clay

Notes

Date: 1930-1950 Technique: Painting

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

Maker's Mark: no

Name/Title

Painting - Untitled (three carousel horses)