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, larger portrait created after Harriss death, and it shows off Stantons loose and flowing technique, with puddles and washes of pure color. It won the Medal of Honor at the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Exhibition in 1917.