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Nave of the South Transept of Trinity Church in Boston

January 1879
19th Century
21 in. x 14 1/4 in.

Susan M.L. Wales, (1839–1927)

Object Type: Work on Paper

Medium and Support: watercolor on paper

Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum; Purchase

Accession Number: 1984.4

Painting of a church interior, very ornate and decorative. Little is known about the connection of Susan Wales, a Boston artist, to the Lyme art colony except that she exhibited at the Lyme Art Association summer shows in 1916 and 1917. A June 6, 1914, reference in "The Day" of New London indicates that she spent several weeks at Florence Griswold's house in the summer of 1914, returning home to Boston in early June. The interior details of Boston's Trinity Church (designed by Henry H. Richardson) were executed by some of the best known artists of their day including John LaFarge and William Morris Hunt. This finely detailed work suggests that richly variated decoration of the Church interior.

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