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Portrait #104
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| Subject/Title: | Wright, Bettie Mills |
| Artist: | Wilkinson, Emma |
| Date Created: | ca. 1925-1935 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 34.5 x 29 |
| Image Dimensions: | 25.5 x 21 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 7/17/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Frontal bust-length of young woman dressed in a white v-cut dress trimmed in lace around the neckline. She has auburn curls, blue eyes, and noticeably pink cheeks. The painting style for her costume and multi-clored background is loose and almost impressionistic. The distinguishing element is a white hat, a pill-box, cloud-like affair adorned with greenery and groups of pearls on the right side of the frame. |
| History: | The work was done in Savannah and derived from a wedding photo taken in 1886. |
| Notes: | Sitter is owner's paternal grandmother. |
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