"Wadsworth Barn, Hartford, CT" by Edward J. Balthazar, Amer., (1890-1956) Hand-Colored Kahlenburgerdorf

Kahlenburgerdorf

an impression printed by the artist's daughter Caro Weir Ely

Here the bustling human presence along the storefronts and seawall emphasize the dizzying height of the buildings which newly distinguished America’s most modern of cities

cream simili-japan paper

Prints by Balthazar were exhibited in the Mattatuck Museum's 2009 exhibit "Travelers Tales"

"Wadsworth Barn, Hartford, CT" by Edward J. Balthazar, Amer., (1890-1956) Hand-Colored KahlenburgerdorfEtching, 1945, Ed. of 112, 1949 Presentation Print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 7 15 16 x 9 15 16, signed in the plate, and signed, and dedicated "To Geo and Phil Davidson"in pencil, on cream laid paper. For years I believed this print showed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Barn in Hartford, CT, but no evidence supported this. The cataloguing notes for an impression of this print at the New Britain Museum of American Art set me straight,