Early tomorrow morning Mark and I are motoring out to Stamford to be married
Date1924
Artist
Arthur Ignatius Keller
(American painter and illustrator, 1866–1924)
Illustration Citation"Mother O'Day," by Leroy Scott, in McCall's, July 6, 1924
MediumOil on canvas board
Dimensions24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)
frame: 27 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (69.9 × 85.1 cm)
frame: 27 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (69.9 × 85.1 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1986
Object number1986-46
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextMade into the 1924 movie The City That Never Sleeps, Leroy Scott's story “Mother O'Day” centers on a woman who continues to run her Bowery saloon after her husband dies. Wanting a better environment for her daughter, she pays an affluent family to raise her. Years later, daughter Molly--a selfish, snobbish flapper--visits the saloon, which is now a fashionable cabaret. The mother foils a fortune hunter, saving Molly from ruin. Mother and daughter are happily reunited.
Arthur Ignatius Keller
1901
