Portrait #1325

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Blount, Barbara
  • Artist:Grainger, Mary Etta
  • Date Created:1952
  • Owner/Location:University of Tennessee - President's Office (McClung Museum)
  • Frame Dimensions:68 x 49
  • Image Dimensions:54 x 35l
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:15 May 2008
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Full length of seated young blond woman facing three-quarter right with a picture hat at her left and a collie-type dog at her right knee with his paw resting on her outstretched left hand in her lap. She wears a low-cut empire-waisted blue-grey long dress with short shirred sleeves. Tree and vista in background.
  • History:Signature: bottom right "M. E. Grainger" McClung Museum accession # 103A/153
  • Notes:One of the first five females at University of Tennessee. Courtesy of McClung Museum - reproduction only by request.