Elizabeth Wynn Wood.1926. Head of a Negress. Bronze. National Gallery of Canada.

“While the subject of Wyn’s Wood’s portrait remains unidentified, Orson Wheeler’s Head of Girl represents a rare moment when some of the artistic conception are known. Wheeler’s portrait represented Lucille Vaughan. Wheeler was an art professor at Concordia University in Montreal when he asked Lucille, then a student, to sit for a portrait. The exact nature of their relationship and interaction has not been thoroughly documented. Such specific information would shed light on the processes of creation which resulted in this individualized study of a young woman with a distant and introspective countenance (Nelson 1998:25).”