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We are in escrow on this house and hoping it will close soon. The roof needs to be replaced, and we are hoping to paint the exterior before we move in. With all the green trees and the serene wooded neighborhood, I feel like the tan is OK but does anyone have suggestions for different exterior colors. And would you go with a tan roof? I can also do brown or green and obviously versions of black or gray.

It’s funny. Her eyes were hazel, but they generally made her eyes look blue or green in these portraits. I guess they were generally done by painters.

I inherited this original artwork from my mother who had it for as long as I could remember. My mom always said that my grandmother had been a model in New York in the early 1930s.

She had a tragic backstory. When she was 18, she was in a car accident, and her mother was killed. She had been driving, and always felt blamed by her father and sister. She fled to New York, where she became a model from about 1930 to 1933. In 1933, she was in another car accident; her fiancé was driving. He was killed, and her face went through the windshield, destroying her fledgling career and her young life at the time.

I have found other magazine covers with her image, but I never could find this one. Evidently, these paintings were kept in storage often for years before they were actually used on the cover and I hadn’t looked as far as 1935.

For the first time, Google image search, pulled up this magazine cover for sale on eBay. I quickly bought one formyself and one for my sister. Evidently the artist was Penrhyn Stanlaws, known for his portraits of pretty girls. My grandmother was our only grandparent, and she passed in 1990. I am so shocked and grateful to have found this.