Berks County Almshouse
1895 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
About this artwork
This oil painting depicts the complex of the Berks County Almshouse, capturing the architectural arrangement of the buildings, grounds, and surrounding rural landscape. It is framed within a decorative oval border.
Did you know?
Louis Mader was an inmate at the Berks County Almshouse in Pennsylvania when he painted this detailed record of the facility. These types of paintings were common among folk artists of the era, who often documented the institutional environments they lived in with meticulous, bird's-eye perspective detail.
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Berks County Almshouse
Louis Mader, 1895
