Description:
A watercolor drawing of the Old Indian House in Deerfield done by Ernest Sherman, husband of Clara Alquist, a painter in Deerfield. The watercolor shows the Ensign John Sheldon house which survived the attack on Deerfield in 1704. It shows the house from a left hand vantage point. The house was taken down in 1848. It is signed in the lower left hand corner, "E. Sherman/ Deerfield, Ma or Ms?" Ernest Sherman, son of Nehemiah and Sarah A. Sherman, born May 14, 1870 in Middletown, Connecticut. Married Clara Alquist c. 1910; they had one son, Ernest A. Sherman. They lived in Deerfield where he became a copyist and illustrator. His work did not merit membership in the Deerfield Valley Artist’s Association. Memorial Hall Museum owns three of his paintings. Ernest died on July 17, 1934, of a diabetic coma and is buried along side his wife in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Deerfield.
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