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From "Robert Fort: Rediscovering a Michigan Artist" at the OSH 2020
Robert Harry Fort
1875 – 1954
Untitled
(Children Coming
From School)
c. 1947 | oil on canvas
Here we are looking north through the backyards of the houses on Griffith Street in Saugatuck. It is a winter day. In the foreground, a woman is hanging laundry behind the Newnham House, where the artist lived. The house to the right of the Newnham House is now Lucy’s restaurant. On Mason street, to the right, the local children can be seen on their way home from school. To the left, we see the Methodist Church on Mason Street. In the background, the First Congregational Church looms over the scene.
Exhibited: Muskegon Artists Annual Exhibition, Hackley Art Gallery, 1947
Collection: Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
2019.33
Gift of John Thomas and Ed GreenLabel
From “Seasons at the Lakeshore” at the History Center 2024-2025
Robert Fort
1875-1954
Children Coming Home from School
ca. 1947 | oil on canvas
Here we are looking north through the backyards of the houses on Griffith Street in Saugatuck. It is a winter day. In the foreground, a woman is hanging laundry behind the Newnham House, where the artist lived.
On Mason Street, to the right, the local children can be seen on their way home from school. To the left, we see the Methodist Church on Mason Street. In the background, the First Congregational Church looms over the scene.
Exhibited: Muskegon Artists Annual Exhibition, Hackley Art Gallery, 1947
SDHC Collection
Gift of John Thomas and Ed Green
Accession number 2019.33.02