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Portrait study of Ethel O'Neill McKenzie
Portrait study of Ethel O'Neill McKenzie

Portrait study of Ethel O'Neill McKenzie

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of Ethel O'Neill McKenzie
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Black, yellow and white pastel on light gray paper
Dimensions
16 x 12 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom left in graphite]: Ethel McKenzie; [verso in graphite]: Ethel / McKenzie (Tait M's / wife --Poetess)Trained as a pianist, McKenzie gave up music after her marriage to Philadelphia physician and sculptor Robert Tait McKenzie. She took up poetry and also published one volume of verse, Secret Snow, for which Oakley provided the cover wrapper illustration.

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