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Portrait #207
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| Subject/Title: | Noel, Oscar |
| Artist: | Newman, W. B. |
| Date Created: | 1930 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 66 x 49 |
| Image Dimensions: | 56 x 42 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 1/31/2004 |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Knee-length standing of an older man with white hair dressed in a business suit, including a vest. His hat is in his right hand and his overcoat, black like his suit, is draped over his left arm. "W.B. Newman 1930" is written in the lower left corner. |
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| Notes: | Starting as a grocery drummer, eventually the subject owned Noel (flour) Mills with his brother Edwin. At the turn of the 18th-19th century flour was Nashville's number one export. Subject is the owner's great-grandfather.
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