Art- Dora Wheeler Keith

Sketches
1.00 [Two simple pencil drawings of the same ship but from different distances. The left side of the drawing is the ship close up with more detail, and the right side is the ship from a distance with less detail but an overall profile] [Gr???] [Chee??] Janry 14, 1927
Draw [?] Keith July. 1927-

[Watercolor painting of a bay with a city in the distant background. On the left side, there is a large rock. A small sailboat surrounded by 5 smaller boats are headed towards the distant city. There is also an empty cargo ship headed in the direction of the rock. The sky is overcast with gray clouds.] [?] bay

[Small watercolor painting depicting Summer on the Nile. The sun is just beginning to rise over the mountain line, and there are sailboats on the river headed towards the sunrise.] Summer on the Nile -

Copy 1900 by Title Guarantee & Trust Co. N.Y. [Lithograph (?) of Captain William Kidds home in 1691. Image shows a dirt road lined with houses on the left hand side and with horses and carriages on it. One carriage is heading away from the houses towards the distant city through a gate. Boarding the road on the right hand side is a wooden dam next to a small shore of a river. There are small fishing boats anchored on the shore. In the distance, larger merchant ships can be seen.] E. L. Henry, N.A. pinx: Gubelman Gravure, Jersey City Residence of Capt. William Kidd - 1691. Now Corner Pearl and Hanover Streets.
[Watercolor image depicting a jungle scene. There is a straw hut on stilts with stairs up to the deck. Underneath the house, there are lots of overgrown red flowers. In front of the house are two men. One is standing under a tree and looking off into the distance, while the other is atop of a bull.]
[Watercolor painting of a idyllic nature scene. A path runs from the bottom right corner into the distance. There is one small house on the right side of the path, surrounded by many different types of flora and fauna. On the left side of the path, there are some small trees and more flowers. In the background, there are tree-covered mountains, and the sky is bright blue with some clouds.] Medura

[Watercolor painting of a rocky island in the middle of the ocean. The island lays right on the border between the sky and the water and has grass on it in some areas. The sky is completely cloudless, and it appears as if the sun just began setting.] [?] [?]
[Watercolor painting depicting the same rocky island in the ocean as the previous painting, except now it is night and the island is slightly closer to the viewer. It still lays on the border between the sky and the water, but because it appears closer to the viewer, it can now be seen that the island is mostly covered in greenery. The moon is full and its reflection can be seen on the surface of the water.] [?] [?]
[Watercolor painting in the shape of an oval, as if in a frame, in the center of the page. Subject of the painting is the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey in the center of the painting. There is a thin tree on the right hand side of the image that has a limb going across the top of the image. There is a path coming from the Hagia Sophia through a patch of trees and heading towards the right of the image.] [?] Sti. Sophie Constantinople 22 July - 1927
[Watercolor and pencil painting in the shape of an oval, centered on the page. Painting depicts Rachels tomb in Bethlehem in Palestine. The tomb sits on the left side of the image, with a tree in front of it. The tomb is white with a dome on top of it. A path from the right hand side of the image leads to the tomb, with a bank below. In the distance, mountains and the city of Bethlehem can be seen.] Rachels tomb Bethlehem -
[Full page watercolor painting of the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx in Cairo, Egypt. The Sphinx sits in the middle of the image, surrounded by sand. Behind the Sphinx lie the three pyramids of Giza. The sky is blue and cloudless.] Sphinx Cairo
[Full page watercolor painting of a tropical beach scene in Hawaii. In the center of the midground, there is a bank with five palm trees on it. In front of the bank is the ocean which is reflecting the sunlight coming through the clouds. Behind the trees, there are rolling hills and mountains. The sky is very cloudy, but the sun is just peeking through the clouds.] Hawaii Oct - 5th 1928 -
[Full page watercolor image depicting the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem in Palestine. In this image, there are four olive trees. The ground below the trees is mostly dirt and the sky is very grey.] Garden of Gethsemane Jerusalem
[Small watercolor painting covered by fabric (?) with an oval cut out in the middle. Inside the oval are two palm trees and two pyramids in the desert. The palm trees are in the foreground towards the right side of the frame. The two pyramids are behind the trees, with one pyramid being noticeably larger than the other. The sky is light blue with clouds.]
[This image depicts the exact same watercolor painting as previously, but the piece of fabric has been removed. There is a dark pencil oval around where the edge of the hole in the fabric was.] Cairo -

[Full page watercolor painting of a tropical landscape. In this image, there is a river cutting the land in half, flowing into the ocean on the right handside. Palm trees line the coast, continuing on into the distance.There are mountains in the background. The sky is bright blue with fluffy clouds.]

[Full page watercolor painting depicting an older man and a younger boy both reading. The older man facing the viewer is wearing reading glasses and is sitting in a wicker chair with his legs crossed. He is wearing a yellow, collared, long-sleeved shirt with a black tie and khaki-color pants. In another wicker chair, facing away from the viewer, is the young boy with curly blond hair and round glasses. He is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt. It appears as if the two are sitting on a deck, overlooking water. The water is a deep blue and the sky is a light blue.] The bored Co. ([?]) as grant transport

[Small circular watercolor painting in the center of the page. Image depicts a lush, mountainous coastline bordering on water. There is a gentle wave front in the foreground of the image. The sky is blue and mostly clear, with one fluffy white cloud on the left hand side of the sky.] [?] [?] October 1928
[Full page watercolor painting of a red hibiscus flower. Begins with a branch that leads into a stem with leaves branching off it, ending with two hibiscus blooms.]

[Full page watercolor painting of a white flower with six thin petals, branching off from the center of the flower. Also branching off from the center of the flower are six stamen. The center of the flower is a light green that gradients into a white. There is a small green stem on the flower.]

The way he looked when not waiting on the table. [Watercolor and pencil drawing of a man from two different angles. The left man is facing directly to the left, so the viewer is able to see a profile view. He is tan in complexion, with black hair, wearing a long-sleeved white shirt. He is also wearing long, multicolored loincloth that reaches the middle of his shins. On the right, the man is now facing the viewer. Here, he is no longer wearing a shirt and now has a necklace with what appears to be teeth on it. He also has a different loincloth on, which is much shorter. The loincloth is blue and red and has some sort of piece holding it together around his waist. He is holding a small hand drum in his left hand and a stick in his right.] Bagnio Camp John [?] May 1929 - [L??s] tarnish [?] [?]