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Signed Edna Frances Edell (Candler), ‘Drawing of a Young Girl’. Colored Pencil & Chalk on Paper, circa 1926
Signed Edna Frances Edell Candler (American, 1891 -1954). ‘Drawing of a Young Girl’. Colored pencil and chalk painting on paper, signed lower left Edna Francis Edell and dated 1926.
The artist was the spouse of Duncan Willson Candler, noted nyc architect who designed a number of projects for Abby & John D. Rockefeller Jr. as well as the Skylands House for Edsel Ford, among others. In 1925, Abby Rockefeller hired him to turn the children’s seventh-floor playroom of the Rockefeller’s 54th Street residence into a gallery, where she could showcase her collection of modern art. Topside Gallery and the Rockefeller’s home on 54th Street was demolished in 1938, giving way to the museum of modern art. Correspondence by Edna is in the collection of the new york historical society.
Sheet – 18 3/4" high x 12 1/4" wide. Frame – 25" high x 19" wide.
Condition: Very good. Framing is vintage.
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