Portrait #1320

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Unknown Lady in Parlor 1
  • Artist:Williams(?) or Wilkes, Susan H.
  • Date Created:1941
  • Owner/Location:Downtown Presbyterian Church Nashville, Tennessee
  • Frame Dimensions:35 x 41
  • Image Dimensions:24 x 29
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:7 May 2008
  • Condition:Excellent, some frame damage
  • Description:Lady seated in a blue-green upholstered chair with her arms resting on the chair and loosely holding an open book in both hands. There is a bookcase full of volumes to her right, and she is facing three-quarter right and looking to the left of the viewer. She wears a dark short-sleeved dress with a brooch at the bodice of the v-neck. Her grey hair is parted in the middle and pulled up behind her head and she is wearing glasses..