Bust Portrait of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Classification:
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Not promoted
Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with yellow album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 13/16 x 2 1/4 in. ( 7.1 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.26b
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:
44490
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Head of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
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Medium:
Graphite on paper backed with blue album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. ( 6 x 4.8 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.26a
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:
44489
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Half-Length Portrait of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
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Classification:
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Medium:
Graphite on paper squared for transfer and backed with blue album paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 15/16 x 3 11/16 in. ( 12.5 x 9.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Object Number:
1979.25d
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:
44488
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Sir Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958)
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Date:
1931
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. ( 20 x 14 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.116
Marks:
signature, inscription, and date: lower left: "Wm. H. Walker / Dutch Treat Club / Feb 24/31"
inscriptions: lower right: "Hubert Wilkins" and upper right: "SIR HUBERT WILKINS"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm. H. Walker / Dutch Treat Club / Feb 24/31"; signed by sitter in graphite at lower right: "Hubert Wilkins"
Gallery Label:
The subject, an Australian explorer, was known as the "father" of Arctic aviation.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1931
eMuseum Object ID:
44487
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Portrait of Alfredo Gandolfi (1884?-1963)
Classification:
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Date:
1930
Medium:
Graphite on notepad tissue paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 4 9/16 in. ( 20.3 x 11.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.103
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Wm. H. Walker"
inscription and date: lower right: "DUTCH TREAT / NOV. 18 - 1930"
inscriptions: lower center: "Alfredo Gandolfi" and upper left: "ALFREDO GANDOLFI / BARITONE, MET. OPERA CO."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Wm.H.Walker"; inscribed at lower right: "DUTCH TREAT / Nov. 18 -- 1930"; along upper edge: "ALFREDO GANDOLFI / BARITONE. MET. OPER. & CO."; signed by sitter at lower center: "Alfredo Gandolfi"
Gallery Label:
The subject, an operatic baritone, performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera Company from 1929 to 1936.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
44486
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Sir Esme Howard (1863-1939)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1930
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/8 x 4 7/8 in. ( 18.1 x 12.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.92
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Wm. H. Walker"
inscription and date: upper right: "Pilgrim Dinner / Plaza - Feb 20/30"
inscription: lower left: "Sir Esme Howard / Retiring British Ambassador"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Wm. H. Walker"; inscribed at upper right: "Pilgrim Dinner / Plaza -- Feb 20/30"; at lower left: "Retiring British ambassador"; signed by sitter at lower left: "Sir Esme Howard."
Gallery Label:
The subject was British Ambassador to the United States from 1924 to 1930.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
44485
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Profile Portrait of Sir Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937)
Classification:
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Date:
1929
Medium:
Graphite on paper with luncheon invitation printed on verso
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/8 x 4 in. ( 16.2 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.86
Marks:
inscription, date, and signature: lower left to right: "SIR / RAMSAY / MACDONALD / Sketched at / Luncheon in his honor / Hotel Astor / Oct 11/29 by Wm. H. Walker"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower left in graphite: "SIR / RAMSAY / MACDONALD / Sketched at / Luncheon in his honor / Hotel Astor / Oct 11/29 by Wm. H. Walker"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a British labor leader and statesman. He was Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1929, when this sketch was made.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1929
eMuseum Object ID:
44484
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Portrait of Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) with Fragment of Musical Score
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Classification:
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Date:
1929
Medium:
Graphite on paper with printed verso
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. ( 16.5 x 11.1 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.70
Marks:
signature: lower right: "W.H.W."
date: lower left: "Jan 1929"
inscription: lower center: "O.K. Sinclair / Lewis"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "W.H.W. / Jan 1929"; signed by sitter at lower center: "O. K. Sinclair / Lewis"
Gallery Label:
The first American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, Lewis attended Yale and began writing for the Saturday Evening Post. His first significant novel was "Main Street," which appeared in 1920. It was followed by "Babbitt" in 1922 and "Elmer Gantry" in 1927.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1929
eMuseum Object ID:
44483
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Portrait of Moss Hart (1904-1961)
Classification:
Date:
1927
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/8 x 4 7/8 in. ( 18.1 x 12.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.36
Marks:
signature and date: lower left and center: "Wm H Walker Nov 1927"
inscription: lower left: "Moss Hart"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed along lower edge in graphite: "Wm H Walker Nov 1927"; signed by sitter at lower left: "Moss Hart"
Gallery Label:
The subject, a playwright, began his career directing small theatrical productions. His first successful play was the light comedy "Once in a Lifetime" (1929). In 1936 he won the Pulitzer Prize for "You Can't Take It With You," perhaps his best-known play.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1927
eMuseum Object ID:
44482
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Caricature of Sascha Jacobsen (b. 1895)
Classification:
Highlight:
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Date:
1925
Medium:
Graphite on yellow paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/16 x 3 9/16 in. ( 13.5 x 9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number:
1990.1.30
Marks:
signature: lower left: "W.H.W."
date: lower center: "1925"
inscriptions: lower center: "Sascha Jacob. . ." and lower right: "JACOBSE[N?]"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed along lower edge in graphite: "W. H. W. 1925 Jacobson"; signed by sitter at lower center: "Sascha Jacobson"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a Finnish-born violinist.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
44481
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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