Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a period Newcomb-Macklin frame retaining a partial label.

DOA 34.25 x 29.5 in.

Margaret Covey studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She later studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleu and at Yale. Primarily known as a portrait painter, she painted the mural for the Livingston, Tennessee post office as part of the WPA artist project during the Great Depression.

Light surface grime; some minor scattered flakes to surface; some minor loss to frame.