This painting is a portrait of a seated woman shown from the knees upwards. She is seated in a woven yellow armchair, with her right arm resting on one arm of the chair, while her left hand rests on her lap. The chair is slightly turned to the left, but she looks directly at us. She has pale skin with slightly pink cheeks, round blue-green eyes, thin brown eyebrows, and pink lips set in a neutral expression. Her hair is dark brown and styled in soft waves, visible beneath a wide-brimmed cream hat adorned with a striped green-and-white band. The woman wears a white dress with a green belt or…
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Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs. Randall Davey)

painter George Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925)

1914

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 96.5 x 76 cm (38 x 29 15/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Florence S. McCormick
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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