Details
Creator Wood, Albert.
Title The “D.K.” watercolors.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1953
Date [1953]
Physical Description 1 sheet ; sheet 30 x 58 (11.5 x 22.5 in.)
Description Description of the watercolors and the possible identity of the artist known as D.K. written by Albert Wood on April 3, 1953. Text explicates that Wood’s grandfather, Alfred L. Wood, a carpenter, acquired the watercolors from an unknown source, either found from one of the houses he worked on or as payment from the artist. He recalls other paintings and objects his grandfather had collected. Wood also describes an African American man that his grandfather would hire to help clean the houses he did repairs on: “The cleaning was done by a (sic) elderly colored man. (the husband of my grandmother’s cook.) sometimes he was not well enough to work, and my grandfather would ask my brother and I if we would like to earn some money?”
Notes Title from item.
Date written on verso: April 3, 1953.
First line of manuscript: The first time I saw a D.K. watercolor I was about nine or ten years of age, this was around 1905.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Wood, Alfred L.
Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Manuscripts -- 1950-1960.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection – Manuscripts [P.2021.43.7]
Accession number P.2021.43.7