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Perdita

Object Details

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This miniature was also exhibited under the titles Repose and White on White. It was exhibited in Dallas at the Texas State Fair in 1915, at the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It was also reproduced in an article in Vanity Fair describing the revival of miniature painting in America.
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Artist
Elsie Motz Lowdon, born Waco, TX 1883-died Ft. Worth, TX 1960
Date
1915
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan
Medium
watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
sight 5 x 7 1/4 in. (12.7 x 18.4 cm)
Type
Painting-Miniature
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