• Artist: Nikol Schattenstein

                                                                • Title: Ely and Josephine Dillon Culbertson

                                                                • Date: 1930

                                                                • Medium: Oil on canvas

                                                                • Currently: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

                                                                • Source: http://npgportraits.si.edu/emuseumnpg/code/

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                                                                • Description: a nicely dressed man and woman, playing cards, fur

                                                                  coat, table, chair, pearl necklace

                                                                • Analysis: Space is shown by overlapping the foreground and 

                                                                  background and making the background darker than the

                                                                  foreground. This is a symmetrical piece that is balanced and 

  even. The artist shows texture in the fur coat by painting small, thin lines. The movement flows from

  person to person and down the picture. There is a cool color scheme throughout the painti, except for the

  pops of the vivid reds on the corsage, the cards, and the lady's lips are very vivid.

• Interpretation: The space is used to show emphasis the couple at the table, making everything else 

   behind them seem more distant and less important. The texture of the coat looks fuzzy, but because the 

   way her hand is laid on the coat and its black color, I believe it suggests a feeling of an artificial, cold-

   hearted rich person. The bursts of red could represent cheating because is shown on the woman's lips 

   and the playing cards.

• Judgment: I think this is a very good piece with nice details. Even though it is a portrait, it gives off many

   different emotions. In my opinion, it's a nice piece to look at because the reds spotted in the painting give

   it a little more liveliness than it would've had with only the cool, darker colors.

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