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Valley lilies #17
Title
Valley lilies #17 [art original] / PJ.
Production
[United States], [20th century]
Physical Description
1 painting : oil on canvas board ; visible image 34.2 x 24 cm, framed to 49.5 x 40 cm
Notes
Title inscribed in graphite on verso: "Valley Lilies #17."
Provenance
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Picture painted by Aunt Polly Jennings 1958 bought for ABL [Annie Burr Lewis] by WSL [Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis] at Mrs. Jennings show of pictures in Schoneman Galleries, East 57th Street, May 1958."
Biographical / Historical Note
Mary Dows Brewster Jennings was born in New York on January 2, 1871, the daughter of Elmina Dows and Benjamin Brewster. She attended the Brearley School and in 1896 married the financier Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936). The couple raised their two sons in New York, Newport, and Fairfield, Connecticut, where Mary Jennings was active in social and civic organizations. After the death of her husband she took up painting floral still lifes and exhibited in New York under the name of "Polly Jennings." She died in New York on May 6, 1964.
Summary
A painting of flowers including roses and lilies of the valley in a bulbous footed vase, signed at lower right: "PJ."; in a deep oak molded frame.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2018
References
Mary Brewster Jennings, Valley Lilies #17. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Mary Brewster Jennings, Valley Lilies #17. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Oil paintings (visual works)
Still lifes.
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