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Subject/Title:
| Keen, Willard |
| Artist: | Clark, M. W. |
| Date Created: | 1906 (January) |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 33 X 28.25 |
| Image Dimensions: | 22 X 26.75 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | Submitted 01/21/2006 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Young man with dark hair parted on his left, wearing a dark jacket and high-collar white shirt with a white cravat. The cravat is decorated with a diamond motif and fastened with a jeweled tie-back. |
| History of Work: | Portrait was a gift to the subject's mother. Artist's work is listed in the Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog. |
| Notes: | Subject was born 1873 and died 1970. Diary of the subject records commission date of portrait at a cost of $10.00. Keen practiced law in Huntsville, TN with James F. Baker, grandfather of U.S Senator Howard Baker. Keen married Esther Walton of Rugby, TN and they had 5 children. Keen was later in the insurance business in Chattanooga.
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