Portrait #1779

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Ridley, Celia James (b. 1939)
  • Artist:Ridley, Evelyn
  • Date Created:1960
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:35 x 29
  • Image Dimensions:28 x 22
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:14 November 2008
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Three-quarter length profile portrait of a young woman (aged 21) sitting on a bench wearing half-sleeve yellow dress with brooch pin at collared neck. Right upturned hand rests in lap. Hold bracelet on right wrist. Subject has short curly brown hair.
  • History:Painted by subject's mother at Centennial Park in Nashville in 1960 while the subject was attending Vanderbilt University.