She rose to her feet as if choking! "I will never sell it. It is needless to think of it."

She rose to her feet as if choking! "I will never sell it. It is needless to think of it."
She rose to her feet as if choking! "I will never sell it. It is needless to think of it."

She rose to her feet as if choking! "I will never sell it. It is needless to think of it."

Date1913
Artist (American artist and illustrator, 1877–1960)
Illustration CitationMerrilie Dawes, by Frank H. Spearman. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913.
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
frame: 28 3/4 × 21 3/4 in. (73 × 55.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Frieda Becher, 1971
Object number1971-108
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextArthur Becher captures the strain between these two characters in a drama about the machinations of Wall Street in 1913. Here, Merrilie Dawes proudly refuses to sell her Fifth Avenue home to save herself from economic ruin. Several of Spearman's novels, interwoven with emotional crises, were made into movies.


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