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Tennessee Still Life, (painting). Artist:  Fain, K. R., 1869-1913, painter. Title:  Tennessee Still Life, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1900. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  26 1/2 x 24 (framed). Inscription:  (Lower right:) K. R. Fain signed Description:  Still life depicting pale pink roses resting on a tabletop in front of a slender ceramic vase and a white porcelain plate with a decorative border. Subject:  Still Life -- Flower -- Rose Still Life -- Other -- Dish Still Life -- Other -- Vase Object Type:  Painting Owner:  East Tennessee Historical Society, P.O. Box 1629, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Nelson, David, Remarks:  Still life painted by Katherine “Kittie” Maria Fain (1869-1913) of Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee. Kittie was the daughter of George Alexander Fain (1832-1901) and Eliza Ruth Moore (1834-1908). According to the Fain family historian, Kittie had a natural artistic talent and worked primarily in oils. It is not known at this time if Kittie had any formal artistic training while she lived in Tennessee, though it is possible that she may have received some sort of instruction in the nearby city of Knoxville as her contemporary Adelia Armstrong Lutz (1859-1931) is known to have. According to family history, Kittie’s family offered to send her to New York City for one year for artistic training on the condition that she abstain from marrying the Reverend James W. Richardson (1869-1906); Kittie did not accept her family’s offer and married the Reverend in 1906. References:  Owner, 2007. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 9D640181   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 9D640181 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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