Lot 974: Nina Harper (Texas/New Orleans, d. 1931)

Nina Harper (Texas/New Orleans, d. 1931, active Newcomb College, 1904-1907), "Newcomb College Pottery Building, 2828 Camp Street, New Orleans", oil on canvas laid down on board, signed lower right, 17 1/8 in. x 19 3/4 in., framed Note: Harper studied at Newcomb College from 1904 to 1907 and exhibited at the Delgado Museum of Art (now the New Orleans Museum of Art) in 1911. The Newcomb Pottery Building depicted here, also known as the Camp Street Crafts Building (designed by Rathbone DeBuys Architects), appears in a 1917 oil painting by William Woodward (1859-1939), sold by Neal Auction Company as lot 620, October 1, 2006, and in a 1903 photo postcard reproduced in Bragg and Saward. Painting the Town, The Woodward Brothers Come to New Orleans. p. 167