Photograph and newspaper clipping: Christopher McEwan, age 7, in pastel portrait exhibit at Winter Park Woman's Club
Book 2, Page 205 ·1949–1949
Transcription
Upper left — a small black-and-white snapshot of a boy in white shirt and dark shorts standing on a sidewalk in front of a building. Captioned in pencil block capitals below:
CHRIS - 19
[The year was begun but not completed — only the ‘19’ prefix is written.]
Upper right — a clipped half-tone reproduction of a pastel-portrait painting showing the head and shoulders of a fair-haired boy with a slight smile. Newspaper caption beneath:
Three of the most interesting of the paintings in pastels and oils by Aileen Fraser Hill, being exhibited in her one man show at the Winter Park Woman’s Club are shown above. Left to right, they are Christopher McEwan, 7 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. Beverly [McEwan]…
AI Notes
The pencil caption reads clearly as ‘CHRIS - 19’ in block capitals, with the year apparently never completed — only the ‘19’ prefix. The clipping itself can be dated by internal evidence: Chris is identified as 7 years old, and the 1942 photos on p196 show him at 8½ months — putting his birth in spring 1942 and thus dating this exhibit to c. 1949. The ‘O. Beverly’ in the clipping is Oswald Beverley McEwan, Chris’s father (whose name elsewhere in the album is spelled ‘Beverley’).
The clipping is trimmed at the right margin; the surname ‘McEwan’ is cut off after ‘O. Beverly’ and the rest of the caption continues beyond the cut. Aileen Fraser Hill was a Winter Park (FL) portrait painter active mid-20th c.