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Nude with Goldfish
ca. 1916
Elsie Motz Lowdon
Born: Waco, Texas 1883
Died: Ft. Worth, Texas 1960
watercolor on ivory
sight 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (11.1 x 16.7 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Alice L. McGowan
1984.12.2
Smithsonian American Art Museum
3rd Floor, Luce Foundation Center
According to the Atlanta Constitution newspaper in 1928, "It was this miniature which the French government sought for a museum piece, but being a staunch American, Mrs. Lowdon declined to have her masterpiece taken out of America." Elsie Lowdon exhibited this miniature to great acclaim at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1919, and again in Los Angeles in 1928, where it won the popular vote as best miniature and a medal for its technical merits. The following year, Lowdon included it in a show at the High Museum in Atlanta, where it was also singled out as the centerpiece of the show.
- This object is featured in the Luce Center's Mix Tape.
For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.
Keywords
Animal - fish - goldfish
Figure female - nude
painting - miniature
paint - watercolor
ivory
About Elsie Motz Lowdon
Born: Waco, Texas 1883 Died: Ft. Worth, Texas 1960
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