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The Silver Goblet (Lucy May Stanton Self-Portrait)

by Lucy May Stanton

1912
Watercolor on ivory
Ivory: 13.7 x 9.5cm (5 3/8 x 3 3/4") Frame: 24.6 x 27.9 x 3.2cm (9 11/16 x 11 x 1 1/4"), Accurate

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Stanton, Lucy Maynotes
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
Watercolor on ivory
Ivory: 17.8 x 12.7cm (7 x 5"), Accurate Frame: 33.7 x 28.6cm (13 1/4 x 11 1/4")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Stanton, Lucy Maynotes
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
Oil on canvas
25 x 20 in. (63.5 x 50.8 cm)

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Beaux, Cecilia 
Abraham Lincoln

by William Willard

1864
Oil on canvas
61cm x 50.8cm (24" x 20")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Willard, William 
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