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The Black Fan

ca. 1923
Not on view
The artist recorded completing this piece about five years before she submitted it in 1928 to the National Exhibition of Miniature Painters, Los Angeles, where she won the Allan C. Balch First Prize.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Black Fan
  • Artist: Elsie Dodge Pattee (1876–1975)
  • Date: ca. 1923
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Watercolor on ivory
  • Dimensions: Sight: 3 3/4 x 5 in. (9.5 x 12.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of American Society of Miniature Painters, 1929
  • Object Number: 29.174.5
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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