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The Silver Goblet (Lucy May Stanton Self-Portrait) by Lucy May Stanton 1912 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Stanton, Lucy May | Lucy May Stanton was best known for her impressionistic watercolor-on-ivory portrait miniatures. She lived mostly in Georgia, but studied art in Paris around the turn of the century. An advocate for womans suffrage, Stanton was also well known in the art centers of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. She presents herself in this large-scale portrait,... | |
Joel Chandler Harris by Lucy May Stanton c. 1914 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Stanton, Lucy May | Joel Chandler Harris, a journalist, humorist, and author of the Uncle Remus stories, lived across the street in Atlanta, Georgia, from Lucy May Stanton when she was a child. She often sat on his knee, listening to his animal stories. When she first asked to paint him in 1906, he queried her desire to paint an old buzzard like me. This is a second,... | |
Self-portrait, 1894 by Cecilia Beaux 1894 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Beaux, Cecilia | ||
Abraham Lincoln by William Willard 1864 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Willard, William |
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