Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Painting |
Title |
Old Covered Bridge on Historic North Road |
Artist/Creator |
White, James Henry |
Date |
1899 |
Description |
Red covered bridge with crisscrossed grey-white side boards visible through missing red horizontal slats; light brown/bare ground area in foreground with blue/green area to bottom left; small tree in center of side of bridge; Bennington Battle Monument in upper right background; faint outlines of small outbuildings in front of monument. |
Width (inches) |
13.750 |
Height (inches) |
8.000 |
Information |
When he was only 34, James White fell and injured his spine. He spent the remainder of his life in a wheelchair. No longer able to continue working as a clerk, he taught himself to paint. He painted this delicate watercolor when covered bridges were still an important part of Vermont's transportation system. The rise of motor traffic in the early 1900s threatened covered bridges due to a steep increase in transportation needs. This Old North Road ran from the Monument to near where the Price Chopper is today. The road and bridge no longer exist. |
Related People |
White, James Henry |
Credit line |
Gift of Miss Alice Robinson |
Catalog Number |
A15 |