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Autumn Symphony

Painting
Oil-on-canvas landscape painting in a wooden, gilt frame. The painting depicts bright, sandy dunes as seen from a shaded viewpoint with pine trees and grasses in the foreground. A note penciled on the frame of "Sept 24" may indicate the painting was created on September 24.
at History Center, January 2023
back pencil mark on frame; Sept 24 H? tag attached to hanging wire; Exhibited Penciled note on back of frame possibly part of bank inventory since all items in donation have the same marks.; 9217 - 24x26 Met? D J 11 - 53867 silver-tone metlaic tag on frame; Citizens Tr. [Trust] & Savings Bank, South Haven, Michigan 809 photo by Eric Gollannek 2-page flyer with information about the painting created by Eric Gollanneck Commercial Record newspaper, November 8, 1929

2023.03.02

01/10/2023

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11/18/2023

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Easel

Oil

This painting hung in the Saugatuck Fruit Growers bank (and it many later iterations) for more than 90 years. According to an article in the November 8, 1929 Commercial Record newspaper, the work was painted "near the end of the Skylin Drive on the Felt estate with the glistening dune near Gibson rising to the North. One of the picturesque old pines nearby is introduced in the foreground with its somber green contrast to the vivid coloration of advanced autumn." The landscape captured by Hoerman still exists today in the Saugatuck Dunes State Park and the Shore Acres Township Park in Laketown Township.

Artworks

Winthers, Sally

Hoerman, Carl 1885-1955

1929

Signature

lower right corner

Painting, Wall

Painting

Art

Category 08: Communication Objects

29 in

27 in

2nd floor gallery/conference room

The painting appears on page 24 of the 1997 SDHC publication "Painting the Town" as "Big Pavilion from the Douglas Shore," 1949, with the following description on page 33: "In Michigan and Chicago he [Hoerman] is best known for his landscapes and dune scenes, with dramatic foliage outlined against a sky of swirling clouds. In a large painting of Kalamazoo Lake the viewer looks over the south bank of the lake, past fall-tinted foliage to the village of Saugatuck on the north bank where the Big Pavilion looks pink in the brightness of a morning sun. The sandy top of Mount Baldhead gleams in the distance."