This is a photograph of a painting of demure twenty-year old Ellin Mackay (US1797b) who gazes out over her elegantly subdued drawing room in the duplex penthouse at the fourteen-story cooperative apartment building designed by Emery Roth in 1929 at 130 East End Avenue., where Mrs. Irving Berlin, lived with her husband Irving Berlin.
The caption accompanying this photograph reads:
Russian painter Savely Sorie's portrait of a demure twenty-year old Ellin gases [sic out over he [sic elegantly subdued drawing room with its midnight-blue carpet.
See Harbor Hill, Clarence Hungerford Mackay's Mansion.
