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Portrait of Nina Jarvie Fletcher as a young girl wearing a white dress, stockings, and shoes. Nina has a small gold bracelet on her left arm and is holding an armful of long stemmed pink roses. Watercolor on ivory.
paintings (visual works)
portraits
watercolor (paint)
ivory (tooth component)
Painting
Painting
This young girl grew up to be, along with her husband, Bertram Little, a pioneer collector of American antiques and paintings. Their summer home is Cogswell's Grant in Essex, Mass. The artist Claude Potter Newell counted Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt among his sitters. This portrait is based on a photograph, a copy of which is in the accession files.
"C.P. Newell 1908" (Brown paint)
Little, Nina Fletcher, 1903-1993
1342.1
1050
Newell, Claude Potter, 1870- (Artist)
Brookline, MA
6 x 4 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Selina F. Little
2015.105.1
Brookline (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
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