Mixed media on paper, signed and dated at lower right "Mary H. Tannahill 1915," housed under glass in gilt composition frame.

SS 8 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.; DOA 10.75 x 13.7.

Property of a Collector, Apex, North Carolina Exhibition History: Twenty-second Annual Exhibition, Poland Springs Art Gallery, Poland Springs, Maine, 1916

Mary Harvey Tannahill was born in Warrenton, North Carolina to Robert Tannahill and his wife, Sallie Sims Tannahill. Robert was a cotton and tobacco merchant in Petersburg, Virginia prior to joining the Confederate army. After the war, he moved his large family to New York City where he continued with the cotton business. A New York lifestyle was perfect for the burgeoning artist. She originally began as a miniature painter, exhibiting at the Philadelphia Society of Miniature Painters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The 1914 WOMANS' WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA describes her portrait painting inclinations, as well as "favors woman's suffrage" and is a "Christian Scientist." A critic for the New York Times described two of Tannahill's watercolors, "By the Weeping Willow Trees" and "Neighbors," as showing the evidence of "modern training" while being "fresh and amusing" (November 14, 1915). Reviews of Tannahill's work in various media, including sculpture, woodblocks, textiles, and paintings were a common occurrence in the New York Times.

$1,000 - 3,000