Frederic Edwin Church, American, - Supply List, Lake Millinocket, Maine - September - October v2 - T-Shirt

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Frederic Edwin Church, American, - Supply List, Lake Millinocket, Maine - September - October v2 - T-Shirt

A handwritten graphite supply list, set in plain columns on cream card, records the provisions a party packed for an autumn stay near Lake Millinocket, Maine.

Visual Elements & Composition

The design is dominated by a warm cream field, with grey graphite lettering and a few black accents. A single column of short, handwritten lines runs down the card, one entry beneath another, pressed close to the right edge. There is no drawing or ornament, only the text itself: glue and gum, glass for looking, opera glasses, condensed milk, lemons, baking powder, tea, coffee, camp stools, fishing hooks, comforters and flat irons. Quantities such as "assorted" and "two kinds" appear among the entries, and the rounded lower corners of the card frame the whole list.

Meaning & Symbolism

The list stands for preparation. Food, bedding, cooking gear, optical glasses and tools together show a party planning to live out of camp for an extended stretch of wild country. It is a document of logistics rather than scenery, and it marks the material groundwork behind the sketching trips that landscape painting depended on. Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), the American painter of the Hudson River School and a pupil of Thomas Cole, made several journeys to Maine that supplied motifs for major paintings. This card, catalogued under the title Supply List, Lake Millinocket, Maine, shows how those expeditions were provisioned.

On the Unisex Heavy Cotton Tee

A tee is worn close to the body and seen from every side, so a list that reads top to bottom suits its shape. Each entry sits on its own line, the way a packing list is read at a glance, and the text sits across the chest as a single calm column. Wear it as a quiet reminder of the planning that comes before any long trip outdoors.

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