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Portrait #1647
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Subject/Title:
| Aunt Mariah |
| Artist: | Avent, Mayna Treanor |
| Date
Created: | 1918 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 13 7/8 x 11 1/4 |
| Image Dimensions: | 11 x 8 1/4 |
| Materials/Media: | Watercolor on paper |
| Date Documented: | 2008 |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Black lady with scarf on head. |
| History of Work: | Painted for the Stokes son, Thomas Stokes, Christmas of 1918. Passed down through the Stokes, Davis and Murfree families. Painted at Breezemont, the Stokes family Home, on Stokes Plantation on Hillsboro Road, Nashville TN, where I-440 currently passes through. Painted by Mrs. Stokes' sister. |
| Notes: | Cook and friend of Water Stokes, Sr., and Nellie Stokes.
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