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Friendship Cottage by Uintah Knight Shippen

Painting
This watercolor painting features a cottage up on a hill in a wooded area. The lower and primarily right bottom of the piece features a note with the title and a note from the author about the cottage. The note reads, " 'Friendship Cottage'/Saugatuck,/Michigan/Summer 1920 Dear Aunt Naomi and Uncle/Oscar: This, "our little dream house," is located on one of the highest sand dunes in Saugatuck and is said to be the very spot about which Fenimore Cooper writes in his book, "Oak Openings." In the midst of dark pines and cool green oaks awe command a wonderfu view of the silver winding Kalamazoo River below and miles of fertile farmlands." Watercolor, framed.
Painting of the friendship cottage

2009.53.02

Artworks

Kutzel, Ken

2009.53

Laingen, Penelope "Penne" (Babcock)

Donation

Shippen, Uintah Knight

1920

Friendship Cottage

9-1/2 in

7-1/2 in

Frame Size: 16h x 14w (framed) Image Size: 9.5h x 7.5w

Seasons at the Lakeshore

AC bay 22 small works

Art Conservation Room

Art Conservation Room

Good

Shippen, Uintah Knight

Curator’s Choice Exhibit

Uintah Knight Shippen 1872 – 1950 The Old Harbor, Saugatuck undated | oil on canvas Notes: Uintah Knight Shippen came from an old Eastern Shore of Maryland family, the Knights, who came to this country from Yorkshire, England. The daughter of the Rev. Lloyd Knight, she was born in Holidaysburg, near Altoona, Pennsylvania, and was the last of 13 children. She attended Knox College, class of 1892, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Uintah married Joseph F. Shippen, a general manager of the Northwestern Terra Cotta company of Chicago, in 1898 and the couple settled in the Evanston, Illinois area. Her husband was also interested in art and they were known to have toured Italy and England sketching. She also painted regularly with the Saugatuck, Michigan summer art colony at Ox-Bow.* This watercolor and text was a greeting sent to a family member in California. *adapted from Ed Bentley, Art Researcher Collection: Saugatuck Douglas History Center Gift of: Penne Laingen Accession: 2009.53.02

Uintah Knight Shippen Friendship Cottage 1920 | watercolor, calligraphy Notes: This ta itonally executed waters ritoubled as a greeting card. Margaret Knight Shippen (Uintah's daughter) to Naomi Knight Easterday (Uintah's older sister), who lived in Palo Alto, California. Uintah and her husband, Joseph Franklin Shippen, were both "Sunday painters" who enjoyed the artistic atmosphere the Saugatuck Douglas area offered. Typical of construction of the time, this 1920s cottage was located on a bluff overlooking the Kalamazoo River (or Lake)-the exact location not yet known-possibly along a road called "The Dug Road". Collection: Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society Gift Of: Penne Laingen

Shippen cottage in Saugatuck, Michigan. Painted by Uintah Knight Shippen. Note written by Margaret Knight Shippen Babcock (Uintah's daughter) to Uintah's older sister, Naomi Knight Easterday, who lived in Palo Alto, California. Status: OK Status By: Ken Kutzel Status Date: 2009-11-23

11/23/2009

10/02/2025