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Article: Businesswoman commissions child paintings from artists in China.
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- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Byline: Caroline Wilbert
Sep. 22--A 4-year-old, rendered softly in oil paints, wears a white dress and smiles just slightly out of a heavy gilded frame.
The portrait is one of 20 lining a small banquet room at the Grand Hyatt in Buckhead where North Carolina entrepreneur Hannah Davis is holding an open house. Davis' fast-growing portrait business targets well-to-do families who want to continue the Southern tradition of family portraits but aren't comfortable with the typical price tag of $10,000 to $20,000. Davis' hook: She commissions paintings in China, where the wages of artists, like other professionals', are much lower than in the United States.
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