Doves and Dreams
Doves and Dreams is organised in partnership with the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
27 January - 22 April 2007
Pencil and watercolour
s. and d.r.: ‘FRANCES E. / MACDONALD / 1898’
45.3 x 101.8 (17 7/8 x 40 1/8)
Donald and Eleanor Taffner, New York
This ambitious watercolour has previously been titled ‘Ophelia’ but there is little sense of that heroine’s tragic death by drowning.
The subject’s youth and the flowery, butterfly-filled setting suggest rather a celebration of innocence and/or Spring.