The signature and date of this interior garret study of an open trunk with chair and heater: Cooks’ 1908 – is in the known hand of artist Charles A. Hellmuth.
Recto: Graphite drawing on paper watermarked: The W.B. Carpenter Co. Cincinnati; signed and dated by artist at LR corner: Cooks’ 1908; drawing surface treated with fixative.
Provenance
Purchased for this archive in July, 2012 from dealer in Hilton, N.Y. who conducted an estate clean-out of former Rochester, N.Y. home of Joseph Foote Hellmuth, the son of artist Charles A. Hellmuth.