Name/Title
Oil portrait of Margaret Laughlin, by Alma Glasgow White, prior 1933Entry/Object ID
2003.62.1Description
ACC. NO. 03.62.1
SUBJECT OR CATEGORY: CITIZENS OF ALAMEDA
DATE OR PERIOD: UNKNOWN
OBJECT: PAINTING, PORTRAIT
DESCRIPTION:
OIL PAINTING PORTRAIT IN A CONTEMPORARY FRAME, WITH INNER LINER OF GOLD LEAF, WITH BEADED GESSO DESIGN. PAINTING IS SIGNED, "ALMA GLASGOW WHITE," IN THE LOWER RIGHT-HAND CORNER.
SIZE: L 27-1/2" X W 24"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
PORTRAIT PAINTING OF THE LATE MARGARET LAUGHLIN, WHO WAS BORN IN ALAMEDA IN 1913 AND WHO ATTENDED LOCAL SCHOOLS. SHE WAS AN ALAMEDA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE IN THE EARLY 1930's. HER FATHER, THE LATE WALTER CUNDALL, COMMISSIONED CONSTRUCTION OF A HOUSE AT 847 LAUREL STREET IN 1905. THE FAMILY OCCUPIED THE HOME FOR MANY YEARS. THE PAINTING WAS COPIED FROM A GRADUATION PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT MADE BY THE LATE MISSES SPENCER AND STOLTE, NOTED WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE PERIOD. THE ARTIST, ALMA WHITE, WAS A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY AND MAY HAVE LIVED IN THE DENVER, COLORADO AREA.
DONOR: MARION FÆBER
CATALOGED: JUNE 7, 2003
