Mary Hallock Greenewalt
Date1905, cast 1933
Artist
Thomas Eakins
(American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1844–1916)
MediumBronze
Dimensions17 x 12 1/2 x 1 in. (43.2 x 31.8 x 2.5 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2012
Object number2012-10
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSCULPTURE
Label TextMary Hallock Greenewalt was an accomplished pianist who lectured on musical theory and the wife of physician Frank Lindsay Greenewalt. In 1919, she unveiled a light organ, which projected colored light as she played, of her own invention. She called it the Sarabet, after her mother. The cryptic notations and the insect in the background of this portrait reference her work in music theory.
