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Depot Street in Vermont
Depot Street in Vermont
Depot Street in Vermont

Depot Street in Vermont

Object NamePainting
Artist / Maker (American, 1905 - 1992)
Date1941
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineProbable gift of the artist. Transferred from the Department of Architecture, College of Design. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberU2007.151
Status
Not on view
Label TextFrom "Subject to Change" exhibit: Lawton M. Patten (American, 1905-1992) Depot Street in Vermont, 1941 Oil on canvas Transferred from the Architecture Department, College of Design. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. U2007.151 Are you familiar with Sinclair Lewis' Main Street? This townscape can be imaged as Gopher Prairie, Minnesota--a town modeled on Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the author's birthplace. Viewers explore the neighborhood from the rear entrances to the homes, and contemplate the daily coming and going of the town's inhabitants. These are ordinary homes in an ordinary town, and as winter casts its blue-grey pall, these homes express that better times are in the past. A native of Vermont, Patten devoted most of his professional career to Iowa State as a professor in architectural history. His office was located in Engineering Annex, a campus building demolished in the last decade. Patten's office window looked out onto the Marston water tower, built in 1897 by Anson Marston, the first dean of the College of Engineering. The 168-foot-tall tower supplied water to the campus in the early 20th century and was the first steel, water tower west of the Mississippi. Note that this painting includes the quintessential church steeple found in Vermont's villages, as well as a midwestern water tower - (not usually constructed of this design in the East at the time of the painting)-perhaps Patten was combining the two places that represented 'home' to him.
Locations
  • (not entered)  Iowa State University, Brunnier Main Storage
Houses
Object Name: Painting
Lawton M. Patten
1930-1939
Object number: U2007.152
Hills
Object Name: Painting
Lawton M. Patten
1939
Object number: U2007.155
Mending the Nets
Object Name: Painting
Lawton M. Patten
Object number: UM2013.886
Autumn Landscape
Object Name: Painting
Lawton M. Patten
Object number: UM2013.885
Ambulance, Rennes, France
Object Name: Painting
Lawton M. Patten
1944
Object number: U88.77
Watercolor
Object Name: Watercolor
Lawton M. Patten
1946
Object number: UM2009.209
Object Name: Painting
Celinda Stamy
2011
Object number: MUAC2013.363
Watercolor
Object Name: Watercolor
Lawton M. Patten
Object number: UM2009.208
Inesbruch
Object Name: Painting
Ludwig Hermann
Early 1800's
Object number: UM2000.123
Truro, Cape Cod
Object Name: Painting
Louise Minert Kelly
1942
Object number: U82.109
Object Name: Sketchbook
Lawton M. Patten
Object number: UM2014.255
Home On The Range
Object Name: Painting
Tom Phillips
1995
Object number: U98.40