Collection Item - Saugatuck-Douglas History Center

Ox-Bow artists at work

Photograph

DescriptionMultiple Simmons negatives Shots of artist painting plein air in front of the Inn, in the meadow or on a field trip to nearby Hamilton, Michigan See 2022.21.269 for shots of buildings and landscape without people. Index text: 266 0/1 Ox-Bow - Classes Life Class, figure 268 0/1 Ox-Bow - Buildings 8/1944 Bent trees, studio buildings 272 0/1 Ox-Bow - People 7/1945 Chapin at the ferry 281 0/2 Ox-Bow - Classes 1957 D. Meredith Woolf weaving 283 0/2 Ox-Bow - Classes 1953 Students painting at Castoria 284 0/11 Ox-Bow - Classes 7/1945 Class outside Ox-Bow Inn 286 0/3 Ox-Bow - Classes 6/1944 Life class 289 0/5 Ox-Bow - Classes Lagoon scenes, classes 291 0/1 Ox-Bow - Scenes 8/12/1945 Studio and students 292 0/2 Ox-Bow - People 1961 Rupprecht girl in arbor 293 0/14 Ox-Bow - Scenes 8/1958 Scenes of open house 307 0/2 Ox-Bow - People 1957 N. Ziroli painting at Hamilton 308 2/2 Ox-Bow - People 1957 Sue Simon painting at Hamilton 309 4/4 Ox-Bow - Classes 1957 Painting at Hamilton From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961. More information may be in the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record"