The Artist's Father and Mother
Olin Levi Warner American
Cast by Tiffany & Co.
Levi (1810-1891) and Sarah Baldwin (1819-1891) Warner, a simple, industrious couple, were farmers and lay preachers. They settled in Westminster Depot, Massachusetts, in 1868, the year before their eldest son Olin began his artistic training in Paris. Warner probably modeled this portrait during one of his frequent visits to his parents in the mid- and late 1870s. The bond between the aged sitters is inferred by the close overlapping of forms and parallel arrangement of facial features. The figures are centered on a subtly textured background. Warner’s trademark cursive inscription sweeps along the edge of the medallion below and to the right of the portraits.
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