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![]() | David Bowie Crockett 1915 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Marjorie Staiars 1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Marjorie Staiars married John Harrah Wood of Villanova, Pennsylvania, in 1933. This miniature was painted ten years earlier, when Staiars was clearly in her teens. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Perdita 1915 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() 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. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Uncle William ca. 1927 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() William had worked for the Lowdon family for decades, and when this was painted, he was said to be 104 years old. During the 1920s and 1930s, Elsie Lowdon exhibited this popular work in Dallas, Abilene, Houston, Atlanta, and Worcester, Massachusetts. In each case, reviewers noted how real the mans eyes and aged skin appeared, a sentiment echoed by... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Violet and Amber 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Elsie Motz Lowdon