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The name “N Medona Emery” on the lower right is
the signature of Mrs. Nellie Augusta Emery who is recorded as
having been in Dallas, Texas and in St. Paul, Minnesota, where
she taught art from 1909-1913.
Nellie Emery studied painting in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux
Arts under James Abbott McNeill Whistler, among others, and in
this country with William Merritt Chase and John Enneking. Although
her birth date is unknown, she is recorded as having died in
1934.
This small scale tranquil scene of trees lining a riverbank,
with fields and a small cottage in the distance, is consistent
with the late 19th century plein air practice of both the barbizon
and the tonalist painters who influenced this American artist. |
