Mother (Annie Williams Gandy)
ca. 1903
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61 × 50.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136192
Annie Williams Gandy, affectionately nicknamed “Mother,” was a close friend of Thomas Eakins and his wife. One critic noted Eakins’s ability to capture an expression in which “mere thinking is portrayed without the aid of gesture or attitude.” (Simpson, “The 1880s,” Thomas Eakins, 2002) Here, Eakins enlists the viewer in an intimate, pensive moment, portraying Annie in a morning coat and braids t…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Lucy G. Rodman through her sister Miss Helen W. Gandy
Registry history
- ca. 1903 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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