Two Women
c.1815
Artist: Eunice Pinney (1770-1849)
Category: genre painting
Medium: watercolor on paper
Collection of the New York State Historical Association.
Description: Two women are seated on plain, straight-backed chairs, facing each other over a small round table. There is a lighted candle on the table. Woman on right wears a gold, empire-waist dress and clutches a closed fan. Woman to left wears a red dress with a white ruffled collar and in her lap is an infant in a long blue dress, holding a rattle. The room is framed by a plain yellow oval border outlined in black. Green draperies gathered and tied with tassels extend from the top of the oval to three-fourths of the way down its sides. The green floor is boldly patterned with red diamond outlines, each with a smaller diamond in its center. Two red-framed windows look out on bushes and a rose -tinted sky. The overall appearance of the picture is one of well-balanced symmetry.
References:
Black, May And Lipman, Jean. American Folk Painting. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1966, Pp. 97-100.
Keyes, Homer Eaton. "The Editor's Attic", Antiques. Xxi, May 1932.
Lipman, Jean. "Eunice Pinney", Primitive Painters In America,1750-1950. Jean Lipman And Alice Winchester, Eds. New York: Dodd Mead And Co., 1950. Pp. 22-30.
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