Object Details
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- This miniature captures an informal image of Glenora Richards’s younger son. The gray and lavender washes of color in the background heighten the intense blue of Henry’s eyes, while the angle of his shoulders emphasizes his alert expression.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Glenora Richards, born New London, OH 1909-died Fitchburg, MA 2009
- Sitter
- Henry Tracy Richards
- Date
- ca. 1955
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Society of Miniature Painters
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Dimensions
- sight 2 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. (5.8 x 4.8 cm) oval
- Type
- Painting-Miniature
