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Grant Wood painted young Gordon Fennell, Jr. (aged about 5) in 1929. Gordon was sitting in a large overstuffed chair with a ball in his hands. He wears a white blouse with a Peter Pan collar and string tie with tassels. He also wears button-on short pants. Unfortunately we have only a black and white reproduction. This is a wonderfully executed portrait, but illustrates a difficulty faced by artists in the modern age. I'm not sure the portait here adds anything a photograph would not have provided.
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