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Portrait #1705
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Subject/Title:
| McDonald, Eloise Gordon |
| Artist: | Westfield, Max |
| Date
Created: | 1946 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 39 x 33 |
| Image Dimensions: | 32 x 26 1/2 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 2008 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Waist-length of subject facing three-quarter right with her eyes turned to look directly at the viewer. Her wedding dress has a scoop neck with layers of lace accenting the neckline and shoulders. The sleeves are long, and the bodice is cut princess-style and banded with what appears to be ribbons. Her auburn hair is worn in an upsweep, and she is wearing no jewelry. |
| History of Work: | Subject commissioned the portrait in 1946 painted in her wedding dress - Given to her son Hunter McDonald Jr. at her death, then given by her grandson to his daughter Clara McDonald Milligan. |
| Notes: | Mrs. Mcdonald was born at Cross Bridges in Maury County in 1867, daughter of Richard Cross Gordon and Mary Camp Webster. Subject died 2 September 1952, internment Rose Hill Cemetery in Columbia, Tennessee. Married 1892 - graduated from the old Columbia Institute in Columbia, Tennessee.
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