Little Girl

Eda Nemoede Casterton, Little Girl, ca. 1920, watercolor on ivory, sight 3 ¹⁄₄ x 2 ¹⁄₂ in. (8.3 x 6.4 cm) oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the American Society of Miniature Painters, 1965.30.17

Artwork Details

Title: Little Girl
Artist: Eda Nemoede Casterton
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sight 3 ¹⁄₄ x 2 ¹⁄₂ in. (8.3 x 6.4 cm) oval
Credit Line: Gift of the American Society of Miniature Painters
Mediums: watercolor
Mediums Description: watercolor on ivory
Classifications: Painting
Miniature
Subjects: Portrait female — unidentified — bust
Portrait female — unidentified — child
Object Number: 1965.30.17
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1965.30.17

Artwork Description

This portrait may be the piece titled Mary Beth that Eda Nemoede Casterton exhibited in Brooklyn in 1926. A critic described it as a “portrait of a little child whose yellow frock is off the shoulders in the fashion of the sixties, showing her baby neck in soft flesh tones.” The “sixties” probably refers to the 1860s.