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Group portrait study of Carolyn Haywood, Dorothy McCauslan and Edith Emerson
Group portrait study of Carolyn Haywood, Dorothy McCauslan and Edith Emerson

Group portrait study of Carolyn Haywood, Dorothy McCauslan and Edith Emerson

Edith Emerson
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Object Details

Title:
Group portrait study of Carolyn Haywood, Dorothy McCauslan and Edith Emerson
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Charcoal and white chalk on brown paper with framing lines in charcoal
Dimensions
12 1/8 x 20 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom left in graphite]: [illegible] Three [Fates?]; [bottom, under each figure, in graphite]: Carolyn Haywood [space] Dorothy McCauslan [space] Edith EmersonBoth Haywood (1898-1990) and McCauslan handled matters at Cogslea while Oakley and Emerson travelled. Both women were Christian Scientists. Haywood was also an author and illustrator of children's books.

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