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Child's Chair (View of Seat Bottom)

Child's Chair (View of Seat Bottom) by Cora Parker

Medium

watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper

Dimensions

overall: 27.6 x 22.5 cm (10 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 23"high; seat 9"; 12" base.

Classification

Index of American Design

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Index of American Design

Accession Number

1943.8.4528

Rights

Public Domain

About the Artist

Cora Parker · 1855–present

Cora Parker (1859–1944) was an American painter and educator born in Kentucky. She studied at the Cincinnati Art School and the Académie Julian in Paris, receiving tutelage from William Merritt Chase. This training shaped her painterly technique of focused brushstrokes that created softened, impressionistic effects. Parker taught oil painting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence from 1887 to 1...

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