Portrait of Elizabeth L. Burton, Thomas Eakins, 1905-1906, Minneapolis Institute of Art: PaintingsPo
Portrait of Elizabeth L. Burton, Thomas Eakins, 1905-1906, Minneapolis Institute of Art: PaintingsPortrait. Three-quarter figure facing spectator, right hand on back of chair; left on hip. Hair worn in pompadour style of early twentieth century. Greyish-blue taffeta dress trimmed with ruching of cocoa brown silk. Elizabeth Burton was a painter who lived near Eakins. Before this work could be completed, she left Philadelphia for British North Borneo (now the state of Sabah in Malaysia).Size: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm) (canvas) 39 ½ x 32 ¾ in. (100.33 x 83.19 cm) (outer frame)Medium: Oil on canvashttps://collections.artsmia.org/art/577/ -- source link
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