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Unknown, Eye Miniature, early 20th century

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4120

Artist Unknown (English)
Title Eye Miniature
Object Date early 20th century
Medium Watercolor on ivory
Setting Gilt copper alloy ring with pearl bezel
Dimensions Sight: 1 x 9/16 in. (2.5 x 1.4 cm)
Framed: 1 1/8 x 3/4 in. (2.9 x 1.9 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/196

Citation


Chicago:

Maggie Keenan, “Unknown, Eye Miniature, early 20th century,” documentation in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.4120.

MLA:

Keenan, Maggie. “Unknown, Eye Miniature, early 20th century,” documentation. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan. The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, edited by Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, vol. 1, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024. doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4120.

Catalogue Entry


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Provenance


Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

References


Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 218, p. 72, (repro.), as Eye Miniature.

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