Perdita

Elsie Motz Lowdon, Perdita, 1915, watercolor on ivory, sight 5 x 7 ¹⁄₄ in. (12.7 x 18.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan, 1984.12.1

Artwork Details

Title: Perdita
Artist: Elsie Motz Lowdon
Date: 1915
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sight 5 x 7 ¹⁄₄ in. (12.7 x 18.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Alice L. McGowan
Mediums: watercolor
Mediums Description: watercolor on ivory
Classifications: Painting
Miniature
Subjects: Figure female — full length
Object — art object — painting
Object Number: 1984.12.1
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1984.12.1

Artwork Description

This miniature was also exhibited under the titles Repose and White on White. It was exhibited in Dallas at the Texas State Fair in 1915, at the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It was also reproduced in an article in Vanity Fair describing the revival of miniature painting in America.