Every Day a Painting for August 13, 2026

Harriet Lancashire White (Mrs. Edward Laurence White) and Her Children, Sarah and Laurence (1922)

Lydia Field Emmet

Oil on Canvas. American.

American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, Part I: Early American Modernism, 1900-1950

Painted in 1922, Harriet Lancashire White and Her Children is a typical example of Lydia Field Emmet’s formal, commissioned society portraiture. The painting represents Harriet W. Lancashire White, th…

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