Contributed by Dyer Library/Saco Museum
Description
Gookin's landscape depicts Cutts Island in its last years as a residential area. Mainland Saco is on the right side of the painting, as well as a colonial dwelling and grist or sawmills. The left side of the painting contains the 1804 three-story home of Richard Cutts, third son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cutts. Thomas Cutts' Georgian home sits across the road.
About This Item
- Title: Saco Falls, 1829, 1829
- Creator: William Stoodley Gookin
- Creation Date: 1829
- Subject Date: 1829
- Location: Saco Falls, Saco, York County, ME
- Media: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 73.7 cm x 90.2 cm
- Local Code: 2009.2.1
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Waterfalls--Maine--Saco
- Dwellings--Maine--Saco
- Buildings--Maine--Saco
- Cutts, Thomas, 1736-1821--Homes and haunts--Maine--Saco
- Saco River (N.H. and Me.)
- Paintings
- Rivers--Maine
People
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For more information about this item, contact:
Dyer Library/Saco Museum371 Main Street, Saco, ME 04072
207-283-3861
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