Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S DAUGHTER AS "THE TUSKEEGEE GIRL"PITTMAN, WILLIAM SYDNEY. The Tuskegee Girl. Full-length watercolor and graphite portrait of Portia Washington. 16x13 inches sight size; some minor browning at the edges; Signed and dated in the lower right corner; in an elaborate period frame. [Tuskegee], 1903
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Portia Washington (1883-1978) was the only child of Booker T. Washington. Gifted musically, she was sent to the best schools at home and abroad. In 1900, while still at Tuskegee, she met William Sydney Pittman, then an architecture student and artist. Pittman "fell in love at first sight" and spent the next 7 years in pursuit of his future wife. The identity of Portia as the Tuskegee girl is evident after a comparison of this watercolor portrait with actual photographs of the young beauty.<