Artwork

Three Portraits of Miss M. (1932-33)

William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (1879-1969)

Oil on canvas, 54" x 81"

Signed lower right “William Starkweather 1932/33

"This picture may be pronounced a minor sensation." (Edward Alden Jewell, New York Times art critic, 4/3/33).

"Another which attracted a great deal of praise from visitors as well as judges was a painting by William Starkweather entitled “Three Portraits of Miss M.” (New York Daily News, 4/5/33).

"Each night I felt more completely possessed by our love…heedless of where the voyage would end. This was our Eden, and we were alone in it." (Thelma Morgan (Viscountess Furness), recalling her 1930 African safari with Edward VIII, future King of England).

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33)

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33) close up of signature

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33) close up of "Thelma in the present" portrait

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33) close up of Medusa portrait

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33) close up of "Future Thelma" portrait

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33) close up of snakes and river

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33) close up of hand

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William Starkweather (1879-1969) "Three Portraits of Miss M." painting (1932-33) close up world's most famous pearl necklace

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Thelma (wearing her famous double strand of black pearls) and Edward

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