Ox-Bow artists at work 1940s-'50s
Photograph
Multiple 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 Francis Chapin demo 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"
2022.21.266
Negative
Ox-Bow/Summer School of ArtOx-Bow Inn/Riverside Hotel/Shriver family homeRupprecht, Elizabeth "Betsy" c1932-2018Ziroli, Nicola 1908-1970Chapin, Francis 1899-1965
William (Bill) Simmons
Winthers, Sally
2022.21
194 Simmons Negatives
Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966
03/12/2022
09/19/2025