Edwin Romanzo Elmer (MA 1850-1923): Pastel on paper "Ashfield Pond" 1906. An artist who spent his entire life in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Edwin Elmer was a portrait, genre and still life painter who was also a highly creative inventor ofmachines that made whip-snaps for shingling horses, for shingling houses. This paintin is a river landscape, signed lower right e.R. Elmer 1906. Image 9 7/8 inches x 16 3/4 inches. Matted and framed under glass, gilt frame. Overall 15 1/2 inches x 20 1/2 inches.