Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, inscribed with the artist's name and address (2362 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio) to verso, presented in a period gilt frame.

Caroline Mytinger was one of Edmondson's students and often modeled for him. Paintings depicting her seated before a table and mending or holding an item of clothing are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Monterey Museum of Art. The present painting may depict Ms. Mytinger, with the distinction of a more detailed domestic interior surrounding. A portraitist as well, Ms. Mytinger traveled to the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea in the late 1920s to paint and study the indigenous people of the South Seas.

Stretcher size 17 x 14 in.; Frame dimensions 21 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Brooklyn, New York

William John Edmondson was born in Ohio and lived most of his life in Cleveland. He studied under Robert Vonnoh and William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as with Jules Lefebvre and Adolphe William Bougeureau in Paris at the Académie Julian.

Paintings by Edmondson are in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia; Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana; Monterey Museum of Art, California; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; and Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.

Two patches to verso with associated retouch visible under UV light (in window opening and small area above tabletop); extensive craquelure with some cupping and several scattered small paint flakes; some scratching to frame.

$1,000 - 3,000