1945 Press Photo Frederick Sweet Chicago Art Institute's Associate Curator

Frederick Sweet,Chicago Art Institute's Associate Curator, traces road that led to James Fenimore Cooper's home in painting done by Samuel F.B. Morse ( he invented the telegraph, too) in early Cooperstown, N.Y. It is one of 164 time-mellowed paintings found by sweet along a laborious, 10,000-mile trial for exhibition entitled "The Hudson River School." The display in the Chicago Art institute, Until March 25, is scheduled for the Whitney Museum in New York April 17-May 18.

Photo is dated 1945.

Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches.