LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor on paper

Measurements:

14.84 in. (37.70 cm.) (height) by 21.18 in. (53.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Dodge Macknight within a circle l.l.

Condition:

framed; not examined out of frame

Provenance:

The estate of Natica Inches Bates Satterthwaite 1919-2015, MaineNBNatica Inches Bates Satterthwaite was the daughter of Oric Bates, who was an archaeologist at Harvard University, and Natica Ysnaga Inches BatesThe Bates family divided their time between Puritan Hill Farm in Groton and BostonShe graduated from the Winsor School and then attended the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for WomenDuring World War II she was a member of the New England office of Dogs for Defense and the WAVESShe attended Bryn Mawr and then transferred to Radcliffe, where she majored in PoliticsIn 1961, she married James Satterthwaite, who was the chairman of the English department at Groton SchoolTogether they developed their Freeport, Maine, property, Tidebrook, which is now part of the Freeport Conservation Trust