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Portrait #577
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Subject/Title:
| Cooper, Hortense Hayes Powell |
| Artist: | Hergesheimer, Ella Sophonisba |
| Date
Created: | 1924 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 58 X 40 |
| Image Dimensions: | 53 1/2 X 35 3/4 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 11/12/2004 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Sitter five years old - blond curly hair - looking and pointing to a bird in the peach tree, painted in the spring - Subject had large blue eyes and pink cheeks - dress falling off left shoulder - white dress with ruching on shoulder, dress falls from the ruching on shoulders. She is holding a straw hat with blue flowers and blue streamers. Her shoes are white with straps across - 3/4 length white socks. Flowering buses in background - pastel background with several green trees. |
| History of Work: | Subject born in 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee. She loved the out-of-doors. She married Pentice Cooper in 1950 who was elected governor of state in 1939. He served until 1944. They had three sons: William Prentice III, James Hayes Shofner Cooper, John Normont Powell Cooper. She served as President NSCDA-TN and the DAR. She worked in New York for the United Nations Department of Public Information. |
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