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Portrait #1700
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Subject/Title:
| Murfree Children |
| Artist: | Baker, Ruth |
| Date
Created: | 1987 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 42 x 44 |
| Image Dimensions: | 35 x 36 3/4 |
| Materials/Media: | Chalk, pastels |
| Date Documented: | 23 August 2008 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | The twin boys, Robert and John Murfree, are standing on either side of the ladder-backed chair where their sister, Virginia, is seated with her right hand on the chair seat and left in her lap. She is wearing a pink dress with a white pinafore and has a large pink bow on the right side of her curly brown hair. Robert, the boy on the viewer's left, is wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and brown trousers, and John is in a blue shirt and darker blue pants and has a watch on his left arm. |
| History of Work: | Commissioned work for Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bell Murfree. |
| Notes: | Three children; daugher sitting, two sons standing. Daugher Virginia Shoop Phillips Murfree in First Grade; Twin sons Robert Brickell Murfree and John Phillips Murfree.
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