Eugenia Douglass McFarland Moore

Painting

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NSCDA-TN

Name/Title

Eugenia Douglass McFarland Moore

Entry/Object ID

Moore, Eugenia McFarland

Description

Subject is a seated young woman facing nearly left profile with her hands, right over left, resting in her lap. She is wearing a white v-necked blouse and deep red skirt. Her dark hair is drawn up in back and combed back from her forehead, and her face is turned slightly to her left. She is looking down and into the distance to the viewer's left. The background is a myriad of colors--blue, grey, white, and red with darker tones behind the body of the subject.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Collection

Private Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Perkins, Phillip, 1907-1970

Date made

1963

General Notes

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

Eugenia Douglass McFarland was born in Jackson, Tennessee, to Stuart Felix McFarland and Bessie Gene Douglass on December 14, 1931. She attended Sullins Academy, Bristol, VA; Rhodes College; The Juilliard School (Bel canto opera singer); TN State University, MS: Guidance & Counseling; Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. She married Benjamin P. Moore and had three children. She died in 2023.

Create Date

September 13, 2026

Update Date

September 13, 2026