Oval bust-length portrait of a young woman with blonde curly shoulder-length hair. Subject has pink flower in hair and holds a pink rose. Sitter wears a pearl necklace. Subject has on a light blue off-shoulder dress. Mottled gray background.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Collection
Private Collection
Made/Created
Date made
1895 - 1905
General Notes
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
Mabel McFerrin was born on July 31, 1878, to John A. McFerrin and Tennessee Wood McFerrin. She married John E. Russell Sr. She worked as a composer, writing hit songs as Sweet Violets So Blue, I Love You and The Vanderbilt University Waltz. She was born in Woodbury ,Tennessee and lived in Wartrace and Nashville. She died in 1951, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Wartrace. She is the mother-in-law of Katherine Early Russell also in this collection.
