An oil portrait of a blonde young girl with blue eyes carrying a book in her proper right hand. The girl is wearing a red coat over her shoulders with a yellow and blue striped collared shirt tucked into a blue horizontal striped skirt. In the background are pink stylized flowers and pine trees.
A Student of Poe, Pliny McConnell, c. 1944, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © Estate of Pliny McConnell.