Oil on canvas, circa 1940. 510x460 mm; 20x18 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Donn and Pam Duncan, Tucson; private collection, New Jersey.
An artist as well as an actress, Markham's (1891-1967) work seeks out every day dramas, assisted by her use of high contrast and shadows. Markham attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1907 to 1909, when she left the Institute to work at Chicago's Little Theater and later with the Provincetown Players in Massachusetts. She became an illustrator to supplement her acting career and in 1930 attended classes at the Art Students League in New York, where she started to work in lithography.
