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Portrait of Ella Lowell Lyman Lee (b. 1889)

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1954

GUSN

GUSN-49550

Description

Portrait of Ella Lowell Lyman Lee as an older woman with gray hair; Sitter is wearing a black dress with a square neckline and sheer sleeves; Strand of small white pearls around her neck; Gilt frame

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
oil paint (paint)
Painting

Inscription

"R H Ives Gammell 1953" (Painted)
"ELLA LOWELL LYMAN LEE/R.H. IVES GAMMELL" (Brass plaque)

Maker

Gammell, R. H. Ives (American painter, 1893-1981) (Artist)

Dimensions

32 5/8 x 26 3/4 x 2 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Roger I. Lee, Jr.

Accession Number

1978.3

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