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Florence Wilson
Florence Wilson

Florence Wilson

League of Nations Portraits
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Geneva, Switzerland

Object Details

Title:
Florence Wilson
Date:
1927
Artist:
Medium:
Pastel on paper between hinged mats with framing lines in black ink and yellow wash
Dimensions
27 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower right of image in graphite]: Violet Oakley / 1927; [lower left above framing line in graphite]: Miss Florence WilsonA friend to both Oakley and Edith Emerson, Wilson (born Mary Florence Wilson) was librarian of the League of Nations and then the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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