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Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-1908
Joel Chandler Harris, a journalist, humorist, and author of the Uncle Remus stories, lived across the street in Atlanta, Georgia, from Lucy May Stanton when she was a child. She often sat on his knee, listening to his animal stories. When she first asked to paint him in 1906, he queried her desire to paint "an old buzzard like me." This is a second, larger portrait created after Harris's death, and it shows off Stanton's loose and flowing technique, with puddles and washes of pure color. It won the Medal of Honor at the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Exhibition in 1917.
Lucy May Stanton, c 1914 |