A large-format mixed-media portrait — a young woman with golden-yellow hair, the most chromatically vivid hair in any portrait in the collection. The hair is rendered in bright yellow watercolor wash over pencil marks, giving it a glowing, almost electric quality. The face below is drawn in pencil with characteristic attention to the eyes and nose; the clothing is a broad wash of deep pink-magenta covering the lower portion of the composition. A purple necklace at the throat anchors the color chord between the gold hair and the pink clothing.
The color composition — gold hair, pale face, purple necklace, pink-magenta clothing — is the most deliberately constructed color arrangement in any portrait in the collection. The three colors are related but not harmonious: the gold and purple are near-complementaries, the pink between them provides a warm bridge. The pencil drawing beneath gives the face its structural specificity while the watercolor above gives the portrait its color drama.
The large format (23.5 by 31 inches) places the figure at near-life-size, the golden hair and the magenta clothing filling the composition's upper and lower portions. Among the large-format mixed-media portraits, this is the most deliberately coloristic — the portrait as a color statement as much as an observed face.