Painting in an American naive style by Jane Wooster Scott at the Windemere Hotel, Santa Monica, 1954

Item Overview

Title

Painting in an American naive style by Jane Wooster Scott at the Windemere Hotel, Santa Monica, 1954

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Architect

Lindsay, John C.

Artist

Scott, Jane Wooster

Date Created

August 5, 1954

Date

1954-08-5

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

The Hotel Windemere was located at 1431 Ocean Ave. Built in 1909, it was demolished in 1962. John Lindsay, a southern California architect, owned the building from at least 1954 until its demolition. According to newspaper reports from 1954 to 1956, he and Jane Wooster Scott were a couple.
Photograph of a painting in an American naïve style of a snowscape scene with a church and houses. Signed "Wooster," the painting is an early work by Jane Wooster Scott (b. 1929). The painting hangs on a wall covered in striped wall paper at the Windemere Hotel.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: John Lindsay...Lady Windemere. 8/5/54.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Keywords

Genre

oil paintings (visual works)
acetate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Windemere Hotel (Santa Monica, Calif.)

Location

California--Santa Monica

Longitude

34.013463

Latitude

-118.496886

Resource type

still image