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Portrait #222
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| Subject/Title: | Unknown mountain man |
| Artist: | Elliston, Bessie 1870-? |
| Date Created: | ca. 1900 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 26 x 21 |
| Image Dimensions: | 17 x 12 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 1/13/2004 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Frontal bust-length of an older man, clean shaven with white and silvery-gray hair. His cheekbones are prominent against his sunken cheeks and his mouth is gathered in creased lips above a cleft chin. His coat is black and he is wearing a ruffled Edwardian collar. The light is strong on his right side. |
| History: | Artist travelled to Beersheba Springs in search of subjects. This man put on the collar for the occasion. |
| Notes: | Artist married Clarence Edwards Sinclair and never painted after she married. |
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