Across the Hall

Artist Henry Thomas Gulick

Period1954

MediumOil on masonite

Dimensions24 × 18.5 in. (61 × 47 cm)

SignedSigned lower left, "H. T. Gulick." Signed on reverse, "H. T. G. Jan. '54."

ClassificationsLandscapes & Still Life

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 2012

Object number2012.5

DescriptionView looking across a hallway into another room. There are three steps in the foreground leading to the level of the hallway, which has a large wardrobe on the left, a three-slat rush-bottom chair to its right, and strip carpeting on the floor. A portion of a painting can be seen hanging on the wall on the extreme right edge of the work. Through the doorway, a glimpse of a parlor can be seen, with a red-upholstered rocking chair shown prominently in front of a carved fireplace mantle on which is placed a porcelain teapot. A fireboard decorated with apples closes the fireplace itself, and another landscape painting hangs above the mantle. A portion of a Christmas cactus can be seen behind the rocking chair.
NotesA scene in the Gulick farmhouse on Holland Road in Middletown, Monmouth County, looking from the dining room across the main hallway to the front parlor. The steps up from the dining room appear in the foreground. The large wardrobe in the hallway came from a 1917 bequest of Miss Julia Wikoff to her niece Charlotte Wikoff Field, Gulick's wife. The artist has included vignettes of several of his paintings in the scene. These include a detail from Indian Spring Farm to the right of the parlor doorway, and the fireboard showing apples and Beecher baskets in the parlor fireplace. The Good Night teapot stands on the right-hand edge of the mantelpiece. Although not dated nor signed, the fireboard has traditionally been given the date of 1956. Across the Hall suggests it might be two years or more earlier.

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