PORTRAIT OF MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST
Creator(s): Malcolm Rae (Painter)
On view in: Adam Dressing Room
About this object
Portrait of Marjorie Merriweather Post seen bust length, facing full front. She is wearing four ropes of pearls, two short and two long, around her neck. She also wears an off the shoulder black dress with applied bands at the cap of the sleeve embellished with silver thread embroidery, pearls and rhinestones (see 48.95). The background is a dark mottled green. Her hair is short and has a white streak in the front right part.
- Object name:
- PORTRAIT OF MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST
- Made from:
- Oil on canvas
- Made in:
- New York, USA
- Date made:
- 1936
- Size:
- 59.7 × 49.5 cm (23 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 51.152
- Class:
- PAINTING
- Signature marks:
- SIGNATURE M. Rae [in red] [lower right] INSCRIPTIION MARJORIE POST DAVIES /1936/ M. RAE [on reverse, lower right corner]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973