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Portrait #117
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| Subject/Title: | Edwards,
(Dr.) Thomas Joshua |
| Artist: | Cooper,
Washington B. |
| Date
Created: | unknown |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 46
x 40 |
| Image Dimensions: | 35.5
x 28.5 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 7/17/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Waist-length
nearly frontal of a man with black hair and sideburns and goatee. His cheeks
are highly colored, and he is wearing a formal black coat, white shirt, and
tie. His left hand rests on a mottled green table and holds a sheaf of papers.
On the table his glasses (?) are atop a tan book with black cover
highlights. A red drape is swaged and gathered on the right side of the
frame. The frame is dark red and gold. |
| History: | The
owner's father remembers taking the work
to the Tennessee State Museum in the 1980s for inspection and that James C.
Kelly, curator, told him it was painted by Washington B. Cooper. |
| Notes: | More
information on Edwards is in the file.
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