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Hollyhocks

Hollyhocks

Artist: Mary Augusta Hiester Reid (Canadian (born in America), 1854 - 1921)

Date: 1914
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Framed: 43 1/4 x 29 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. (109.9 x 74 x 7 cm)
Canvas: 36 x 22 in. (91.4 x 55.9 cm)
Credit Line:Gift of the artist
Object number: 1922.1.1
This garden painting may have been completed in the gardens of Candace Wheeler, a good friend to both George and Mary Reid. Wheeler’s gardens in Onteora, New York, where Wheeler established a summer art colony, were featured in a series of articles in the Atlantic Monthly.
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