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Letter from Frank Sherman Peer, owner of Squawkie Hill Farm, to the Wadsworth homestead discussing business matters

An 1887 advertisement from The Livonia Gazette concerning stallions at Squawkie Hill Farm in Mount Morris

In Blue Clown, Peck presents a hauntingly stylized figure portrayed almost entirely in deep blue-teal tones, creating a dreamlike yet unsettling atmosphere. Its blue tonal effects are created through the aquatint process, a technique that uses “acid…

All five of the Pecci paintings at the New Deal Gallery shuffle elements from each other, such as a table perhaps common to all. In this still life, a pictorial jug from his “Fruit and Flowers (1)” receives a 90-degree turn so that its handle can be…

Upon a table we behold a composition in red: a bunch of grapes, a bouquet of red roses, and a bottle of Chianti its classic straw basket (called a fiasco). Once we factor in Pecci’s white wall and green leaves, it would seem that these colors of…

On a plain table is placed a bowl of pears and an Italian jug, apparently that same one as appearing in his “Fruit in a Basket" still life. In the jug, we see a bouqet of roses. Light from the ride side of painting casts shadow seemingly upon a wall…

Upon an unadorned table we see a cane basket filled with apples, oranges, and a grapefruit; next to a pitcher, a lemon and another apples. In the absence of drapery or curios, the complexity in this still life comes from subtle elements like the…

Several stems of pink and white gladiolus are displayed in a pictorial vase, whose unusual scene gestures toward a sailboat alongside a coastal mountain range. Below them on the table are apples, an orange, and a grapefruit. A warm light illuminates…

Journal<br />

Sheffield Peabody was a farmer who chronicled his life in Springwater, NY between 1849 and 1914. In many ways his life was typical of his peers: he struggled to make a living at a time when American agriculture favored railroads, food processors, and…