Portrait #417

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Grant, Saidee Polk Fall
  • Artist:Hergesheimer, Ella Sophonisba
  • Date Created:prior to 1936
  • Owner/Location:James K. Polk Ancestral Home 301-305 W. Seventh St. Columbia, TN 38402 931-388-2354 www.jameskpolk.com/new/
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:65.25 x 53
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/14/2004
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Knee-length left seated profile of Saidee Polk Fall Grant wearing a pink ball gown. Her arms are draped over the sides of a chair, and she holds a rose in her right hand. Her hat is black with a white plume. The background is dark.
  • Notes:Subject is great-great neice of Sarah Polk. Subject organized the Polk Memorial Assoc. on July 31, 1924. She married Rollin Grant.