Cook's Dam at Leeds
Image ID: ART006
An oil painting of Cook's Dam and bridge over Mill River in Leeds with two figures in foreground at base of dam. In background are trees with autumn colored leaves.
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA.
1943: A very good year for art at Forbes Library. Or was it quite so good as they thought?
Gifts of art to the Library in 1943 included two works admittedly by unknown artists ("Cook's Dam" and a portrait of Roswell Hubbard); and two works of questionable attribution (the Eudon/Houdon bust and the portrait of Major Simeon Theus, then attributed to Gilbert Stuart. See Samuel F.B. Morse entry for a correction of the latter.)
Anonymous
"Cook's Dam at Leeds" was presented to the Library in 1943 by Mrs. Irene Gates Underwood, widow of Robert Underwood, who has been Ward 2 member of the Northampton Common Council and Board of Alderman. The painting is unsigned and its artist is unknown. It shows the old wooden bridge at Cook's Dam, later destroyed by the Mill River flood of 1874, which ravaged homes, factories, and farms all along the raging river's path. The painting is presumed to precede the date of the flood.
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA.
1943: A very good year for art at Forbes Library. Or was it quite so good as they thought?
Gifts of art to the Library in 1943 included two works admittedly by unknown artists ("Cook's Dam" and a portrait of Roswell Hubbard); and two works of questionable attribution (the Eudon/Houdon bust and the portrait of Major Simeon Theus, then attributed to Gilbert Stuart. See Samuel F.B. Morse entry for a correction of the latter.)
Anonymous
"Cook's Dam at Leeds" was presented to the Library in 1943 by Mrs. Irene Gates Underwood, widow of Robert Underwood, who has been Ward 2 member of the Northampton Common Council and Board of Alderman. The painting is unsigned and its artist is unknown. It shows the old wooden bridge at Cook's Dam, later destroyed by the Mill River flood of 1874, which ravaged homes, factories, and farms all along the raging river's path. The painting is presumed to precede the date of the flood.
Image Details
| Dublin Core | |
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| Title |
Cook's Dam at Leeds
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| Subject |
Dams
Oil paintings
Cook's Dam, Leeds, MA
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| Description |
An oil painting of Cook's Dam and bridge over Mill River in Leeds with two figures in foreground at base of dam. In background are trees with autumn colored leaves.
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA. 1943: A very good year for art at Forbes Library. Or was it quite so good as they thought? Gifts of art to the Library in 1943 included two works admittedly by unknown artists ("Cook's Dam" and a portrait of Roswell Hubbard); and two works of questionable attribution (the Eudon/Houdon bust and the portrait of Major Simeon Theus, then attributed to Gilbert Stuart. See Samuel F.B. Morse entry for a correction of the latter.) Anonymous "Cook's Dam at Leeds" was presented to the Library in 1943 by Mrs. Irene Gates Underwood, widow of Robert Underwood, who has been Ward 2 member of the Northampton Common Council and Board of Alderman. The painting is unsigned and its artist is unknown. It shows the old wooden bridge at Cook's Dam, later destroyed by the Mill River flood of 1874, which ravaged homes, factories, and farms all along the raging river's path. The painting is presumed to precede the date of the flood. |
| Creator |
unknown
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| Format |
Oil
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| Identifier |
ART006
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| Physical Dimensions |
29" x 27"
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Citation
unknown, “Cook's Dam at Leeds,” Forbes Library Images from the Archives (Legacy site: Pre-2022), accessed December 21, 2024, https://images.forbeslibrary.org/items/show/756.