Oil on canvas (lined), 1910, signed at lower right, presented in a carved giltwood frame.

Stretcher size 28 x 60 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 32 1/4 x 64 in.

Proceeds to Benefit Carol Woods Charitable Trust, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Ida Jolly Crawley was born in Pond Creek, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Captain John Fred and Martha Phillips Crawley. After studying at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., she traveled throughout Europe and her oeuvre includes many continental subjects. Several of her paintings were exhibited in the 1910 Appalachian Expositions held in Knoxville, Tennessee.

In 1919, Crawley purchased a large residence in the city of Asheville, North Carolina. She established the home as the Ida Jolly Crawley Museum of Art and Archaeology, though it was also known as the House of Pan. There, Crawley exhibited her extensive collection of artifacts and artworks, including “antique furniture, Pompeian pottery and lava, Dead Sea water [and] botanical and geological specimens.” Courtesy of the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina.


Canvas has an old lining, patched hole, area of loss, and scattered retouching visible under UV light inspection, large dent to canvas at center sky area, minor flaking at upper edge, lines from stretcher, and yellowing varnish.