Bauby's Corner
1945 (Date manufactured/created)
1945 (Date manufactured/created)
1945 (Date manufactured/created)
oil, oil
canvas, canvas, painting, painting
Bauby's Corner at Exchange Place in downtown Waterbury at night. Corner of South Main St and Bank St at SE corner of The Green. Billboards and stores lighted. Pedestrians and cars complete the busy street scene. Balthazar was a lawyer by profession, he is perhaps best remembered as an artist who depicted his native town with uncommon technical skills and attention to detail. His interest in art began at an early age, and he studied in Waterbury with Hugo Possner, George Davidson, and Minnie Rogers Steele, He also studied in New York City with "ash-can" artist George Bellows. Balthazar, a graduate of Yale Law School, was more interested in his growth as an artist than in what he considered a "humdrum law practice". Notes on Balthazar, according to Charles Monagan: The painting "From Library Park" hangs on my sister's wall. I think the piece titled "South Main Street," which I have, is actually Mill Street. I have one of William/Benjamin Howland with the writing utensil in his left hand. One the back, my father has written: "Presented to JSM by Ridge and Lucy Hall after Ridge Jr. worked in JSM's office. This is Benjamin Howland, an old Yankee title searcher who used to work in the Town Clerk's office (vault). He did work for the Engineer's and privately. He was very old and bent and didn't talk much to anyone, but just went about his work. He had most of the city titles in his head. Ed Balthazar did two etchings. One had the pencil in the left hand and one in the right. Artists do this. Delvaux did it in the lithograph I have. I remember Howland very well, although I never did more than say "hello." He didn't encourage familiarity." Curious that my father calls him Benjamin, but he was never very good with names. There's one Balthazar did of the Immaculate Conception Church as seen from the Green, which my mother has and which the Museum no doubt has. The artist told my mother that the woman seen on the Green is meant to be pregnant, a reflection of Mary, for whom the church is named.
Bauby's Corner at Exchange Place in downtown Waterbury at night. Corner of South Main St and Bank St at SE corner of The Green. Billboards and stores lighted. Pedestrians and cars complete the busy street scene. Balthazar was a lawyer by profession, he is perhaps best remembered as an artist who depicted his native town with uncommon technical skills and attention to detail. His interest in art began at an early age, and he studied in Waterbury with Hugo Possner, George Davidson, and Minnie Rogers Steele, He also studied in New York City with "ash-can" artist George Bellows. Balthazar, a graduate of Yale Law School, was more interested in his growth as an artist than in what he considered a "humdrum law practice". Notes on Balthazar, according to Charles Monagan: The painting "From Library Park" hangs on my sister's wall. I think the piece titled "South Main Street," which I have, is actually Mill Street. I have one of William/Benjamin Howland with the writing utensil in his left hand. One the back, my father has written: "Presented to JSM by Ridge and Lucy Hall after Ridge Jr. worked in JSM's office. This is Benjamin Howland, an old Yankee title searcher who used to work in the Town Clerk's office (vault). He did work for the Engineer's and privately. He was very old and bent and didn't talk much to anyone, but just went about his work. He had most of the city titles in his head. Ed Balthazar did two etchings. One had the pencil in the left hand and one in the right. Artists do this. Delvaux did it in the lithograph I have. I remember Howland very well, although I never did more than say "hello." He didn't encourage familiarity." Curious that my father calls him Benjamin, but he was never very good with names. There's one Balthazar did of the Immaculate Conception Church as seen from the Green, which my mother has and which the Museum no doubt has. The artist told my mother that the woman seen on the Green is meant to be pregnant, a reflection of Mary, for whom the church is named.
Bauby's Corner at Exchange Place in downtown Waterbury at night. Corner of South Main St and Bank St at SE corner of The Green. Billboards and stores lighted. Pedestrians and cars complete the busy street scene. Balthazar was a lawyer by profession, he is perhaps best remembered as an artist who depicted his native town with uncommon technical skills and attention to detail. His interest in art began at an early age, and he studied in Waterbury with Hugo Possner, George Davidson, and Minnie Rogers Steele, He also studied in New York City with "ash-can" artist George Bellows. Balthazar, a graduate of Yale Law School, was more interested in his growth as an artist than in what he considered a "humdrum law practice". Notes on Balthazar, according to Charles Monagan: The painting "From Library Park" hangs on my sister's wall. I think the piece titled "South Main Street," which I have, is actually Mill Street. I have one of William/Benjamin Howland with the writing utensil in his left hand. One the back, my father has written: "Presented to JSM by Ridge and Lucy Hall after Ridge Jr. worked in JSM's office. This is Benjamin Howland, an old Yankee title searcher who used to work in the Town Clerk's office (vault). He did work for the Engineer's and privately. He was very old and bent and didn't talk much to anyone, but just went about his work. He had most of the city titles in his head. Ed Balthazar did two etchings. One had the pencil in the left hand and one in the right. Artists do this. Delvaux did it in the lithograph I have. I remember Howland very well, although I never did more than say "hello." He didn't encourage familiarity." Curious that my father calls him Benjamin, but he was never very good with names. There's one Balthazar did of the Immaculate Conception Church as seen from the Green, which my mother has and which the Museum no doubt has. The artist told my mother that the woman seen on the Green is meant to be pregnant, a reflection of Mary, for whom the church is named.
Gift from W. Fielding Secor and William J. Secor, Jr., 1989. In memory of William J. Secor
Gift from W. Fielding Secor and William J. Secor, Jr., 1989. In memory of William J. Secor
Gift from W. Fielding Secor and William J. Secor, Jr., 1989. In memory of William J. Secor
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