Name/Title
Louisa Day Smith OatesEntry/Object ID
Oates, Louisa SmithDescription
Seated, three-quarter length of subject wearing a red dress and facing three-quarter right with her head turned to direct her blue eyes at the viewer. The elaborate low-cut bodice has bows at each side and a blue ornament at the center. She is wearing pearl drop earrings and a single-strand pearl necklace. Her brown hair is parted on her left and pulled up and back. Her right arm rests behind her dress and her left hand is on her hip and has nail polish matching her dress and a ring on her ring-finger.Collection
Private CollectionMade/Created
Artist
Blackford, Katherine Crawford, 1917-1978Date made
1954General Notes
Note Type
Historical NoteNote
Louisa Day Smith was born on 15 December 1909, to Walter Lane Smith and Mary Louisa Day Smith. She and Mrs. Blackford were childhood friends in summer colony. Mrs. Oates from Memphis, Tennessee. She was a member of Memphis Country Club, Tuesday Study Club, National Society of Colonial Dames, Memphis Garden Club and the Order of the Crown, a board of directors member of Crippled Children's Foundation and Elmwood Cemetery, a former member of Memphis Junior League and Houston Junior League and a former Memphis and West Tennessee Skeet Champion. She married Charles Paxton Oates in 1931 and had at least one child. She died in 2005 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.Create Date
September 20, 2026Update Date
September 20, 2026