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Emily Drayton Taylor, Eye Miniature, ca. 1930, watercolor on ivory, framed: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm) diam., Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.330

Emily Drayton Taylor, Eye, ca. 1930

Artist Emily Drayton Taylor (American, 1860–1952)
Title Eye Miniature
Object Date ca. 1930
Medium Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions Framed: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm) diam.
Credit Line The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr 1961.330

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4374

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, 1951–1961;

Their gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.

Exhibitions

Water Color, Cleveland Museum of Art, June 6–August 27, 1962.

Year in Review: 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24–November 25, 1962.

Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Cleveland Museum of Art, March 26–October 17, 1993.

Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, November 16, 2000–March 18, 2001; Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, June 6–September 24, 2001.

Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and their Contemporary Relatives, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 10, 2013–February 16, 2014.

References

Dominique Païni and Guy Cogeval, Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2000), 212.

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Emily Drayton Taylor, Eye Miniature, ca. 1930, watercolor on ivory, framed: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm) diam., Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.330