My Doll and I Start on a Trip

Artist Mary Bruce Sharon (American, 1878 - 1961)

Dateca. 1949-1953

MediumOpaque watercolor on cardboard

DimensionsUnframed: 15 1/8 × 10 3/4 inches (38.42 × 27.31 cm)
Framed: 22 3/4 × 18 1/4 inches (57.79 × 46.36 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lynn S. Banks, Mrs. B. H. McGarvey, Mr. Barat Guignon, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Schneider, and Mr. Ward C. Gifford

Object number53-53

Signedl.l.: "Mary Bruce Sharon"

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DescriptionPrimitive painting of a pig-tailed girl and her blonde doll, both dressed in green-checked suits, the child standing on a red-brick walk, the doll seated on a yellow trunk. Foreground: right, fringe-topped surrey; left, black manservant. Rear, white clapboard lower facade of house, figure of a woman in gray coat standing before stoop. Flowers and pine trees in front of house.

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