Name/Title
Red Barns in WinterEntry/Object ID
SHH 96.584Description
Framed oil painting on stretched canvas with interior gold molding and wide exterior silver moldings. Landscape painting of winter scene of cluster of farm buildings, three barns, pair of silos, and two shacks, perched on top of hillside, barns are painted red with blue-purple roofs, wooden fence line running down right side of painting, solitary tree covered with snow at top left, ridges of snow covered vegetation in lower foreground. Ground painted as snow with purple and yellow toned highlights, snow on barn roofs, cloudy sky ranging in color from greens and blues at right to yellow at extreme left possibly indicating sun coming through overcast sky. Impressionist palette of purplish snow.
See media file for old 1996 catalog record that describes labels that had been removed from the back of painting (now missing). Bruce Greer 11-16-2017Type of Painting
EaselCollection
PERMANENT COLLECTIONCataloged By
Margaret TramontineAcquisition
Accession
SHH 96.584Source or Donor
Seiberling, John Frederick Jr.Acquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Seiberling, Gertrude PenfieldRole
ArtistDate made
1935Place
City
AkronState/Province
OhioCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaCondition
Overall Condition
GoodNotes
While setting up for 2024 season an area of missing paint was noticed in the sky on the upper right side. Area is about a centimeter long.Overall Condition
GoodNotes
04/01/2020 moderate cracking throughoutProvenance
Notes
Exhibted in the Second Annual New Year Show at the Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, January 1-31, 1937.
Listed in The Akron Art Institute exhibition catalog "Exhibition Paintings in Oil by Gertrude F. Penfield Seiberling" June 10-30, 1938. No. 33, dated 1935 in catalog.
Listed in 1946 Memorial Exhibition of paintings by Gertrude Seiberling held at the Akron Art Institute. No. 18.General Notes
Note
Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling (1866-1946) studied art while attending the Lasell Seminary for Young Women in Auburndale, Massachusetts between 1883-1887. Later in life during the 1930's and 1940's, Mrs. Seiberling began to paint quite seriously, studying with well-known local artists, and exhibiting her work both locally and nationally. Mrs. Seiberling was also a prolific painter and there are many of her works in Stan Hywet's museum collection as well as in the possession of Seiberling family members. Mrs. Seiberling was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors as well as the Women's Art League of Akron. She entered the Butler Art Institute's yearly New Year Show, and in 1945 worked on an exhibition of 36 of her oil paintings to be displayed at the Akron Art Institute (Museum) where she was a trustee. Her unexpected death on January 8, 1946 transformed the March 1946 display into a memorial exhibition. After Mr. Seiberling's death in 1955, family members were permitted through a lottery system format to select and receive some of M/M Seiberling's possessions, including Gertrude's art. John Seiberling has already given some of her paintings to Stan Hywet Hall over the years, and this was given to the museum owing to John and Betty's decision to sell their home in the Cuyahoga valley and move into smaller quarters. MAT 1996-12-13
In 2008, ICA recommended storing it lying flat to avoid further damage. Bruce Greer 11-9-2017
Further info (From Julie Frey email, 11-16-2017): "Red Barns in Snow" did come to ICA in 2008 for examination (ICA project 2800/08). However, no conservation treatment was done. Wendy Partridge calculated that the treatment-consolidation, cleaning, fills and retouching-would take almost 40 hours. She recalls that the cost estimated at that time, $4,300, was thought by Stan Hywet to be too much to invest in the painting, so the project was dropped before a treatment proposal was written.
Painting was sent to ICA in 2018 for conservation and was returned in March 2019. See Media links for documents and photographs.
Painting was sent to ICA for conservation and returned to Stan Hywet on 04/04/2019. See media links for documents and photos.Create Date
December 13, 1996Update Date
June 9, 2026
