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Mrs. Weldon E. Wright (Lucy Macon Green) (1830-1911) and daughter Leslie Hunt "Lula" Wright (1854-1868), (painting). Artist:  Byrd, John Henry, 1800-1874, painter. Title:  Mrs. Weldon E. Wright (Lucy Macon Green) (1830-1911) and daughter Leslie Hunt "Lula" Wright (1854-1868), (painting). Dates:  ca. 1855. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  39 x 30 1/4 in. (99.1 x 76.8 cm). Description:  Lucy Macon Green Wright with her arm behind her seated daughter, Leslie Hunt "Lula" Wright. Lucy hold a cup in her hand. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family -- Mother & Child Portrait female -- Wright, Weldon E., Mrs. (Lucy Macon Green) Portrait female -- Wright, Leslie Hunt "Lula" Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Arkansas Arts Center, 9th & Commerce Streets, MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 Accession Number: 40.016 Provenance:  Donated by Brame, James Thomas, Mrs., Helena, Arkansas Donated by Wright, Ida M., Little Rock, Arkansas Remarks:  Lucy Macon Green Wright was born near Greenville, North Carolina in 1830. She was orphaned and raised by her Macon grandmother in Somerville, Tennessee. In 1854 she married Dr. Weldon E. Wright in Inverness, near Memphis, Tennessee. She moved to Princeton, Arkansas as a bride. A few years later the family moved to Little Rock. Their daughter Leslie Hunt "Lula" Wright was born in 1854 and died on June 22, 1868. She died on May 12, 1911 in Helena, Arkansas. The donors, Mrs. James Thomas Brame (Sallie Lea Wright) and Ida M. Wright, are the sitter's daughters. References:  Owner, 1972. National Society of Colonial Dames, Arkansas, 1982. Crawford, Sybil F., 2002, 2003. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 01660011   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 01660011 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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