"Reflections in a Samovar" by Edward F. Rook
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- Title
- "Reflections in a Samovar" by Edward F. Rook
- Author
- Edward F Rook
- Publication year listed
- 1929
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- Public domain eBook
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"Reflections in a Samovar" by Edward F. Rook
Author: Lyme Art Association
Year: 1929
"Reflections in a Samovar" by Edward F. Rook. oil on linen 30"x 36" "Reflections in a Samovar" awarded Lyme Art Association Prize in Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition (on view July 27-September 7, 1929 at Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT). Link to exhibition catalogue (#27) Link to image at Arthistoryreference.com: http://arthistoryreference.com/cgi-bin/hd.exe?art2=a9960 Excerpt from 1986 NyTimes article about "Reflections in a Samovar": "One of the paintings, ''Reflections in a Samovar,'' an oil on canvas measuring 30 inches by 36 inches, will be shown with the actual items illustrated in the painting - a samovar, a ginger jar, a fruit basket and cake plate. The painting and the objects are priced at $75,000 by the Connecticut Gallery in Marlborough. The gallery also will be showing Rook's ''Bradbury's Mill,'' an oil on canvas measuring 24 7/8 inches by 36 inches for $36,000. It is a landscape showing a mill on a pond with the foliage changing to autumn colors." Full Article: http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/28/nyregion/antiques-early-americana-in-hartford.html