• American Literature: Colonial Period
American Literature: Colonial Period
American Literature: Colonial Period

American Literature: Colonial Period

Westport Public Art Collections
Ralph L. Boyer (created by)
September 1 1936 (Date manufactured/created)
Oil on canvas
Canvas
55 inches H X 84 inches W Measurement Notes: documented by conservator Christine Cunningham-Adams
Oil on canvas. Portrayed in the first of Boyer's three American Literature murals are, from left to right: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Henry Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Photograph by Karl LaRoche, Stamford, CT, for the Federal Art Project, W.P.A.
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