Ethel Frances Mundy (American, 1876-1964)

Portrait of Louise Fleischmann Tate
carved and polychrome-decorated wax
signed Ethel Mundy fecit, lower right
Diameter 6 1/4 inches.

Portrait of Charles Fleischmann with Dog
carved and polychrome-decorated wax
signed Ethel Mundy fecit, lower right
inscribed Charles Fleischmann / "Skipper" 9 years old / Dec 1937 / Ethel Mundy artist., verso paper label
Diameter 6 1/4 inches.

Provenance:

Purchased directly from the artist.

Exhibited:

An Exhibition of Portraits in Wax by the Internationally Famous Ethel Frances Mundy, Closson's, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1938.

Louise Fleischmann Tate, aunt of Charles "Skip" Fleischmann III, was the eldest child and only daughter born to Julius and Lilly Ackerland Fleischmann on June 8, 1894. She married her first husband, Henry Craig Yeiser (1892-1936) in 1916, and the couple had two sons. Louise and her second husband, Benjamin Ethan Tate (1890-1868) married on August 17, 1936, in New London, Connecticut. A dedicated philanthropist throughout her life, Louise was an avowed champion of women's reproductive rights and founded the Maternal Health League of Cincinnati, later Planned Parenthood, of which she became president. In addition, she contributed her time and resources in service of the Natural History Museum, the Cincinnati Zoo, UC Health's Holmes Hospital, Camp Stepping Stones, and Hoxworth Blood Center. She died in Cincinnati on December 25, 1987.