Oil on canvasboard, signed at lower right, framed.

Frame dimensions 16 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Brooklyn, New York

Ethel Blanchard Collver was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston under several of America's best known impressionists, including Frank W. Benson, Edmund C. Tarbel and Philip L. Hale. She also studied briefly with Charles Hawthorne.

In 1919, Collver traveled to Paris to continue her studies at the Académie Colarossi. The following year, one of her paintings was selected for exhibition at the Spring Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts.

Best known for her charming and colorful impressionist scenes of everyday life along with portraits of children, her works were exhibited in such prominent venues as the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the National Academy of Design in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and the Worlds Fair 1939 in Chicago.

Surface grime; some craquelure; wear to framing.