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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Vanderbilt Collection - Kirkland Hall | ||
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| Subject/Title: | Jesse Peders Norfleet 1877 - 1964 |
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| Artist: | Goode P. Davis | |
| Date Created: | 1957 | |
| Owner/Location: | Vanderbilt University | |
| Frame Dimensions: | ||
| Image Dimensions: | 37" x 31" | |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas | |
| Condition: | Excellent | |
| Description: | Mr. Norfleet is seated in a green chair wearing a gray suit with white shirt and blue striped tie with white handkerchief in his left pocket. He is holding an open book. |
| History of Work: | This portrait was commissioned by the Board of Trust in 1956 and is a copy of an earlier portrait by the same artist, Goode Davis. The portrait hangs in Kirkland Hall on the campus. |
| Notes: | Born in west Tennessee, J.P. Norfleet graduated from Vanderbilt in 1899 and became a Memphis cotton factor. He became a Trustee on the University's Board of Trust in 1916 and served as its president in 1954 - 55. He became a Life Trustee in 1956. |