Rider Tavern

Catalog Record: Rider Tavern

Access Key: aepr

Title: [The Rider Tavern] / Roy Vandam.

Author Vandam, Leroy D. (David), 1914-2004.

Publisher [198-].

Physical Descri: 1 watercolor on rough watercolor paper : color ; visible image 39 x 52.5 cm.

Form/Genre: Paintings.
Form/Genre: Watercolors.

Relationships: Host item
Title : Dr. Leroy Vandam watercolors.

Note type: General
Notes: Accession number 1993-9-20-1 B.

Note type: General
Notes: Title from WLM acquisition document.

Note type: Source of acquisition
Notes: Purchased 9/1993 from Dr. Leroy D. Vandam.

Note type: Reproduction
Notes: Photographed by Mr. William Lyle, 7/13/2010.

Note type: Publications about
Notes: This painting was featured in an Anesthesiology Reflection, in the journal
Anesthesiology, by George Bause, MD (citation: The Rider Tavern by Vandam.
Anesthesiology. 2012;113(5):1080.).

Note type: General
Notes: One of 8 original watercolors by Dr. Leroy Vandam in the WLM collection.
Double matted, wood frame with glass. Painting and frame in excellent
condition.

Note type: General
Notes: Selected for the WLM website, 2010.

Note type: Abstract
Notes: Light yellow/light-tan, three story colonial with 2 greenish-blue doors and
white trim. Blue sky and green, light green, red, and yellow vegetation.
Trees with some bare branches. View of building from a lot across the street.
The lot seems to have overgrown vegetation obscuring a stone wall, which in
turn obscures most of the road. The building depicted in the painting is the
Rider Tavern in Charlton Massachusetts. The Waters-Morton House is also in
Charlton Massachusetts. According to the Charlton Historical Society the
Rider Tavern is “one of the least altered and best documented examples of a
wayside tavern of the Federal period in New England.” Also, according to a
Charlton visitors guide, the Rider Tavern has been “named one of the ten
most outstanding buildings in the state” of Massachusetts.