Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891-1968)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Crayon and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. ( 60 x 44.1 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.201
Marks:
inscriptions: Signature pencil lower right
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a leading figure in the field of journalism in the middle of the 20th century. In 1917 he married Iphigene B. Ochs, the daughter of Adolph S. Ochs, then publisher of The New York Times. Sulzberger joined The Times in 1918 and when Ochs died in 1935 he assumed the leadership of what was by then one of the largest and most influential newspapers in the world. He served as president until 1957, and from 1957 until his death as chairman of the board.
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
42738
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Miss J. Crichton: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; on verso: silhouette Z.2636b
Dimensions:
image height: 9 3/16 in. ( 23.3 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. ( 27.3 x 19.4 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of cream paper.
Object Number:
Z.2636a
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower right: "Miss J Crichton"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Miss J Crichton"
Gallery Label:
This silhouette belongs to a group of forty-five silhouettes of faculty and students of Miss Haines's School that were taken on November 12, 1859.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
42730
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Henry Lewis Stimson (1867-1950)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Watercolor and gouache on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. ( 54.6 x 44.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.157
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
The subject was born in New York, the son of Lewis Atterbury Stimson and Candace (Wheeler) Stimson. After graduating from Yale (1888) he attended Harvard law school and was admitted to the New York bar. He began his practice in New York in 1893 and soon thereafter became interested in politics. He served as secretary of war under President Taft and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and as secretary of state under President Hoover.
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
42728
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ellen Mills: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige paper; verso of silhouette Z.2635a
Dimensions:
image height: 9 1/8 in. ( 23.2 cm )
sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 11/16 in. ( 27.3 x 19.5 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length female figure in right-facing profile; black paper cut-out mounted on rectangular sheet of beige paper.
Object Number:
Z.2635b
Marks:
inscribed in ink: lower left: "Ellen Mills"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "Ellen Mills"
Gallery Label:
This silhouette belongs to a group of forty-five silhouettes of faculty and students of Miss Haines's School that were taken on November 12, 1859.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
42726
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Melancton Smith: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
c. 1803-1810
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper laid on black prepared paper, in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 2 13/16 in. ( 7.1 cm )
sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. ( 12.1 x 9.8 cm )
Description:
Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of cream paper; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564ffff
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "88"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "M S"
inscribed in pencil: upper right: "Melancton / Smith"
embossed: below bust: "MUSEUM"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "88"; at lower right: "M S"; embossed at lower center: "Museum"
Provenance:
Peale's Museum
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
42721
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Abigail Briese: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1804
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with blue paper underlay, laid on a folio in an album of 50 folios containing 91 silhouettes, 24 blank folios, and a two page list of sitters
Dimensions:
image height: 2 7/8 in. ( 7.3 cm )
sheet: 4 5/16 x 3 5/16 in. ( 11 x 8.4 cm )
Description:
Bust of female subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from cream sheet of paper with rounded corners; mounted in album containing a total of ninety-one silhouettes.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1948
Object Number:
Z.2564tt
Marks:
inscribed in ink: upper right: "No 49"
inscribed in ink: lower left: "AB 1804 / A:1.23"
inscribed in pencil: lower center: ". . . 1804 Etat 23"
Inscriptions:
Silhouette inscribed at upper right in brown ink: "No 49"; at lower left: "A. B. 1804 / Æt. 23."
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of Salibury [Connecticut?].
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1804
eMuseum Object ID:
42718
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Samuel Verplanck (?): Silhouette
Classification:
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on beige lithographed heavy paper with white gouache, laid on card
Dimensions:
frame: 10 1/8 x 5 3/4 x 7/8 in. ( 25.7 x 14.6 x 2.2 cm )
image: 8 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. ( 21.6 x 10.5 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Full-length male figure wearing long cape and holding top hat in front of him, in left-facing profile; black paper cut-out on lithographed beige paper ground which has been cut down from original size, adhered overall to beige card; rectangular wood frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplanck
Object Number:
Z.2534
Marks:
inscribed in ink, verso: "...kill-on-Hudson N.Y."
inscribed in pencil: on cardboard backing of frame: "Prob. cut by / A. Edouart / Silhouette of / Samuel / Verplanck"
typewritten label: affixed to cardboard backing: "GIFT OF MRS. BAYARD VERPLANCK"
Inscriptions:
Card inscribed on verso at upper left in brown ink (cut): "kill-on-Hudson N.Y."
Gallery Label:
The subject is listed as follows in the "Complete List of 3,800 Silhouette Portraits of American Citizens Taken Between 1839-1849 by August Edouart . . .": "Verplanck, Saml., 36, Franklin Street (Jan. 17)." See Andrew Oliver, "Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844" (1977), p. 545.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
42708
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified Woman: Silhouette
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
c. 1800
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with black textile underlay and black paper overmat, and black ink, watercolor, and gouache
Dimensions:
frame: 11 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 3/4 in. ( 28.9 x 23.5 x 1.9 cm )
image height: 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in. ( 21.3 x 16.2 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Three-quarter-length female figure in right-facing profile; black-painted dress with collar drawn in graphite on white paper with rounded corners, the head hollow-cut and backed with black textile (silk?); decoratively cut black paper border applied over silhouette; rectangular wood frame.
Credit Line:
Elie Nadelman, Museum of Folk Arts, Riverdale-on-Hudson, Bronx, New York
Object Number:
Z.2396
Marks:
stamped: on back of frame: "THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY / FOLK ARTS COLLECTION / November 17, 1937"
typewritten label: on back of frame: "Unidentified / Silhouette"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
42707
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The "Lord's Prayer": Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1828
Medium:
Beige paper cut-out, laid on black prepared paper
Dimensions:
frame: 5 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 1 in. ( 14.3 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm )
image: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. ( 9.5 x 12.1 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Text of the Lord's Prayer with stylized floral border cut from lightweight beige paper and affixed to hand-coated black paper; rectangular gilded frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Helen M. Turner, 1935
Object Number:
Z.2532
Marks:
inscription: lower center: "Cut with out Hands by / Martha Honeywell"
inscription: on back: "In 1828 when my mother was / on a visit to her Parents in / New York she saw Martha / Honeywell cut without hands / the Lords Prayer from Tissue / Paper - / Mar
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center on cut-out etiquette in brown ink: "Cut with out Hands by / Martha Honeywell"; verso of silhouette inscribed in brown ink: "The Lords Prayer / cut by Martha Honeywell a / [?]ing girl born without arms, / she used scissors with her toes as / one would with their fingers- / Our Mother was present / when she cut it in New York / the summer of 1828- / My sister in Law Mrs. Preston / told me the girl was born on / her farm near Louisville / M.D. Hancock / 1894"
Gallery Label:
Born without arms, the woman who cut this silhouette held the scissors in her teeth while the paper was supported on a table. For a while, she demonstrated her unusual skill at Barnum's Museum in New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
42706
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Clarendon Hotel: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1873
Medium:
Black prepared paper cut-out, laid on card
Dimensions:
sheet: 7 x 9 1/8 in. ( 17.8 x 23.2 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: View of colonaded building surrounded by trees cut from black paper and mounted on rectangular cream card; banner with title, "CLARENDON HOTEL," cut from black paper and mounted below image.
Object Number:
Z.2561
Marks:
inscribed in pencil: on cardboard backing of discarded frame: "Anon. Artist / Saratoga 1873"
Inscriptions:
Black prepared paper cut-out inscription below building: "CLARENDON HOTEL"; verso inscribed at center in graphite: "11/8/17"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1873
eMuseum Object ID:
42705
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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