Mabel (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
- Created by
- Lee-Smith, Hughie, American, 1915 - 1999
- Subject of
- Everett, Mabel Louise, American, born 1920
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 38 × 34 × 5 in. (96.5 × 86.4 × 12.7 cm)
- Caption
- Hughie Lee Smith painted this sensitive portrait of his wife, Mabel Louise Everett, around the time they were married and moved to Detroit in 1940.
- Description
- This oil painting portrait depicts the artist's first wife, Mabel Louise Everett. Shown from the chest upwards, she wears a dark blue dress with red trim at the neckline. Her shoulder length hair is done in a style popular with women during the 1940s, pulled back on the top of her head. Her gaze is directed slightly toward the right side of the painting. The background of the portrait is flat with with tones of brown, cream, red and blue.
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- oil paintings
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Stephanie Anne Patterson
- Object number
- 2016.172
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Estate of Hughie Lee-Smith
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