School Room by Fairy Essie Locke Newman, 1960
date: label: date made
content: 1960
notes: label: Description
content: This is an oil painting on board depicting a country school classroom by Tennessee artist Fairy Essie Locke Newman in 1960. A teacher is writing an arithmetic problem on the blackboard. Students are seated in three rows, with girls on the left and boys on the right. There is a black potbellied stove in the middle of the room, with a white dog lying beside it. The painting is in a dark wooden frame.
label: Description
content: Fairy Essie Locke Newman was the daughter of Hanna Narcissus Magness and Jessee Burton Locke in Warren County Tennessee. She was born July 16, 1880 (or possibly 1872) married in 1900 to Charles Preston Newman, had nine children, and died January 23, 1968 in Nashville.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0244.389
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0244.389
label: accession number
content: 2014.0244
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/4 in x 21 in x 1 in; 45.085 cm x 53.34 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: image: 15 in x 18 in; 38.1 cm x 45.72 cm