Cleveland Museum of Art

The Blue Gown (Portrait of Ethel Coe)

Martha S. Baker

Date

1899

Medium

watercolor on ivory

Culture

America, late 19th century

Department

American Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Martha S. Baker was best known for painting portrait miniatures on ivory. The sitter in this example was not only a fellow artist, but likely one of her former students. Interestingly, the miniature remained in Baker’s possession at the time of her death and was later gifted by her relatives to the museum. A handwritten label on the back of this portrait miniature revealed the sitter’s identity.

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