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Portrait of Margaret Huxtable Townsend (1882 - 1970)

Bongart,Sergei R., 1918-1985
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Bongart,Sergei R., 1918-1985
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Faculty, Portraits, Images, Townsend, Margaret Huxtable, Paintings, Bongart, Sergei R., 1918-1985--Artist, Distinguished Faculty Portraits
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Rhodes College Portrait Collection
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Abstract
This is a painting of Professor Margaret Huxtable Townsend, Rhodes College's first woman professor (1918-1954) and the first Dean of Women (1925-1952). She is seated wearing dark blue regalia with her hands resting in her lap. The painting by Sergei Bongart was done in 1954 and given to the College a year later. Bongart's signature is in the lower left corner. Sergei R. Bongart (1918-1985) was born in the Ukraine and emigrated to the U. S. in 1948 where he lived in California and Idaho.
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The frame is about 40 by 30 inches and is white with gold streaks. It is located in, Rollow Hall in the Catherine Burrow Refectory.