Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, inscribed on the verso "Portrait in Green / (Elizabeth Willingham Crump) / March, 1932," retaining a Young's of Richmond gallery label on the verso of the original frame with composition ornament to corners.

SS 29.5 x 24.5 in.; DOA 38 x 32.5 in.

A Richmond native, Williams studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He continued his studies in France, where he studied in the atelier of Boris Grigoriev and was even mentored by Pablo Picasso. In 1930, Williams showed thirty of his paintings in Richmond - including still-lives and landscapes painted in Southern France. One-man shows of his work were mounted in New York City at Montross Gallery and Loederer-Arkman Galleries throughout the 1930s. Two of his paintings of Cagnes, France were illustrated in the Rotogravure Picture Section of the New York Times on March 2, 1930.

Elizabeth Landstreet Willingham Crump was born November 19, 1910 and passed away on March 25, 1968. A descendent of Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, she is buried in Richmond, Virginia's famed Hollywood Cemetery, next to her husband J. Taylor Ellyson Crump.

Good estate condition; minor chipping to frame.

$800 - 1,200