Legend of Ingham Spring
Date1928
Artist
Peter Hurd
(American painter, printmaker, and author, 1904–1984)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions55 x 95 in. (139.7 x 241.3 cm)
frame: 62 1/2 x 99 3/4 x 3 in. (158.8 x 253.4 x 7.6 cm)
frame: 62 1/2 x 99 3/4 x 3 in. (158.8 x 253.4 x 7.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. H. Craig Bell, 1989
Object number1989-121
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextAn artesian spring near New Hope, Pennsylvania, known as Aquetong Spring was also called Ingham Spring for the family who owned the land. The Lenni Lenape Indians who lived in the area had a variety of legends relating to the spring. One was about a group of young native hunters who while following a deer drove it into Konkey Hole, a natural spring; half an hour later the animal emerged at Ingham Spring, three miles distant, alive and uninjured.
