-verysmall.gif)
National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art - Memphis, Tennessee | ||
Accession #RS83.78.4  |
||
| Subject/Title: | Portrait of Martha Gamble | |
| Artist: | Paul Matthew Scott, American, 1910-1982 |
|
| Date Created: | 1942 | |
| Owner/Location: | Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave Memphis, TN 38104 901-544-6200 |
|
| Frame Dimensions: | 27 5/8" x 21 1/2" | |
| Image Dimensions: | 24 1/4" x 18" | |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on wood panel | |
| Date Documented: | 31 May 2008 | |
| Condition: | Good | |
| Description: | Frontal elbow-length portrait of a woman looking towards the right of the canvas. The woman is wearing a brown collared shirt with a white jacket. Half of the woman's brown hair is pulled back and she is wearing coral lipstick. Brown and red mottled background. |
| History of Work: | Signed: LR: Paul Matthew Scott. |
| Notes: | Sitter is a descendent of the Emile Frederick Augustus Witzmann family who lived in Memphis in the last quarter of the 19th century. (portrait was not painted in Memphis.)
Provenance: Given by Gamble family. One is the sitter in the portrait. Gift in memory of Mary Louise Witzmann Gamble from her children Frederick, Martha, and Emile Image courtesy of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art - Reproduction by permission only. |