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Portrait of Mary Kate (Vahey) Walsh - oil, by Ethel R. Foster, 1938

Oil on canvas, signed upper right 'E R Foster '38' (initials run together; signature partly hidden under the frame until Craig moved the canvas in April 2024). Mary was about 39. Family tradition: an art teacher at the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, where Mary worked as a maid, painted her. Her husband Dudley was the Institute's caretaker (1942 draft card; 1940 census 'art gallery'). The artist is identified as Ethel Robinson Foster (1881-1963) of Concord, NH - Art Students League, charter member of the New Hampshire Art Association, exhibited at the Manchester Institute and the Currier Gallery; her photograph collection is at the New Hampshire Historical Society. Correspondence with Karen Papineau, Currier Museum, March-April 2024.

Provenance: kept by Dudley's son Dinny and his wife Emily, who - by her own account - could not stand looking at it. On one of Craig's visits to Manchester Emily pulled it out of a closet and said that, as Mary's grandson, he should have it. It now hangs at the end of Craig and Marjorie's hallway in Honolulu, where he sees it many times a day and loves it.

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