Portrait of Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972)
Classification:
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. ( 18.1 x 13 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.198
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Wm H Walker"
inscription: lower right: "Y. [S?]. . . ors. . . y"
inscription and date: lower left: "IGOR SIGORSKY / Dutch Treat May 21/35"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm. H. Walker / IGOR SIGORSKY / Dutch Treat May 21/35"; signed by sitter at lower center: "Y. Sikorsky"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44563
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Portrait of Christian Frederick Gauss (1878-1951)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 5 in. ( 19.4 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.197
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Wm.H.Walker"
inscription and date: lower right: "Dutch Treat Mar/35"
inscriptions: lower left: "[Dr Savage?] / not subsidize our players." and lower center: "Christian Gauss"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Wm. H. Walker"; inscribed along lower edge: "Dr Savage / not subsidize our players. Dutch Treat Mar/35"; signed by sitter at lower center: "Christian Gauss"
Gallery Label:
A specialist in Romance languages, Gauss taught at Princeton University from 1905 to 1946.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44562
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Portrait of John Charles Thomas (1891-1960)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 5 in. ( 19.4 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.194
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm HWalker / 35"
inscriptions: lower right: "JohnCharlesThomas" and "John Charles Thomas"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm H. Walker '35"; at lower right: "John Charles Thomas"; signed by sitter at lower center: "John Charles Thomas"
Gallery Label:
An operatic baritone, Thomas had his recital debut in New York City in 1921. He performed with the Metropolitan Opera Co. from 1933 to 1945.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44560
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Portrait of Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981)
Classification:
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in. ( 17.9 x 12.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.196
Marks:
signature: left: "Wm H Walker"
inscriptions and date: lower right: "Rosa Ponselle / May 21 1935" and lower left: "ROSA PONSELLE"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm H Walker / ROSA PONSELLE."; signed by sitter at lower center: "Rosa Ponselle / May 21 1935"
Gallery Label:
The subject, an operatic soprano, was born Rosa Ponzillo in Meridien, Connecticut. She made her debut, as Leonora in "La Forza del Destino," with the Metropolitan Opera in New York on November 15, 1918.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44561
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Herbert Witherspoon (1873-1935)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 5 1/16 in. ( 19.4 x 12.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.193
Marks:
signature: right: "Wm. H. Walker"
inscriptions and date: lower right: "Herbert Witherspoon / DUTCH TREAT / MAR 12/35 / Died May/35"
Inscriptions:
Signed at middle right in graphite: "Wm. H. Walker"; inscribed at lower right: "DUTCH TREAT / MAR 12/35 / Died May/35"; signed by sitter at lower center: "Herbert Witherspoon"
Gallery Label:
Witherspoon sang numerous leading parts at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, from 1908 to 1916, and later served as president of Chicago Musical College (1925-29), vice-president and director of Chicago Civic Opera Co. (1930-31), and director of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (1932-33).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44559
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Ruth Slenczynski (b. 1925)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 5 in. ( 19.4 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.192
Marks:
inscriptions and date: lower center: "Ruth Slenczynski" and lower left: "Dutch Treat / Mar 1935"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Dutch Treat"; signed by sitter at lower right: "Ruth Slenczynski"
Gallery Label:
The subject, an American pianist, was famous as a child prodigy.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44558
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin (1873-1938)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1935
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 5 in. ( 19.4 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.191
Marks:
inscriptions: lower left: "by / Chaliapin / Mar 5/35" and lower right: "F Ch. . ."
Inscriptions:
Signed by sitter/artist at lower right in graphite: "FCH"; inscribed by Walker at lower left: "by Chaliapin / Mar 5/35"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
44557
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sketches of a Young Couple Embracing and Two Elder Women Talking; from disassembled Cummings album
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
mid-nineteenth century
Medium:
Graphite on heavy paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 5 5/8 in. ( 7.6 x 14.3 cm )
Description:
Half figures
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.38
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Stearns"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Stearns"
Gallery Label:
This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
44548
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William Charles Macready (1793-1873)
Classification:
Date:
1827
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/16 x 3 1/2 in. ( 13.2 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.37
Marks:
inscription, signature, and date: upper left to right: "The original Sketch of McCready / in the character of Wm Tell for / the large picture. H. Inman 1827"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed above image in graphite: "The original Sketch of Macready / in the character of Wm Tell for / the large picture. H. Inman 1827"
Gallery Label:
British-born actor William Charles Macready first toured the United States in 1826-27, at which time Inman produced this drawing, which is related to an oil sketch now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The actor is represented in the title role from "William Tell," a tragedy by Friedrich von Schiller. The drawing came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1827
eMuseum Object ID:
44547
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Portrait of a Woman, from disassembled Cummings album; verso: fragmentary sketch for an oval portrait
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1820-25
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on card; graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 11/16 x 3 3/8 in. ( 9.4 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.36
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Potter"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Potter"
Gallery Label:
This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
44546
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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