Beth's room was now a somber place. It lacked the gay and dainty touches usually associated with a girl's bedroom.
Date1920
Artist
Edmund Franklin Ward
(American illustrator, 1892–1991)
Illustration Citation"The Immediate Jewel" by Ben Ames Williams, in Redbook, October 1920
MediumOil on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 25 7/8 × 19 15/16 in. (65.7 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineAcquired through the estate of Frieda Becher, 1978
Object number1978-661
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextEdmund Franklin Ward studied at the Art Students League in the same class with Norman Rockwell. He began illustrating for The Saturday Evening Post before he was twenty. He was adept in oil painting as well as watercolor; he also painted a mural for the Federal Building in his native White Plains, New York. Here he depicts the sparse bedroom of a self-sacrificing young woman who puts her family's happiness above her own.
May Wilson Watkins Preston
1928
