Mary Shaw
Datec. 1910
Artist
John Butler Yeats
(Irish artist, 1839–1922)
MediumGraphite on heavy paper
Dimensionssheet: 7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1922
Object number1978-351
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe subject is probably Mary Shaw (1854–1929), a Broadway actress and playwright, who performed in important and controversial modern plays, including works by Ibsen and Shaw. A feminist and a suffragette, Shaw met the Sloans with Yeats in the summer of 1910.
