William Seabury (1805-1833)
Classification:
Date:
1825
Medium:
Graphite on card mounted on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 3 1/8 in. ( 10.8 x 7.9 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Andrew Oliver
Object Number:
1963.20
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right in graphite: "1825. W. S. MOUNT."
Gallery Label:
The subject was the third son of Rev. Charles Seabury and Anne (Saltonstall) Seabury. He was born in New London, Connecticut, and in 1814 moved to Setauket, Long Island, with his family. He suffered from poor heath, became blind, and died at an early age.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
41972
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William Franklin Knox (1874-1944)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1940
Medium:
Crayon and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. ( 59.1 x 46.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.169
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
Franklin Knox was born in Boston, the son of William Edwin and Sarah (Barnard) Knox. He started out as a journalist, and after World War I became general manager of all Hearst newspapers, but left that position to become publisher of the Chicago "Daily News" in 1931. A staunch Republican, Knox was his party's nominee for vice-president under Alfred Landon in 1936. He was made secretary of the navy by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
41968
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Frances Perkins (1882-1965)
Classification:
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Watercolor and gouache on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. ( 51.4 x 41.3 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.182
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in gray ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
The subject, who became involved in the reform movement to improve working conditions in factories in the early years of the twentieth century, was made a member of the New York State Industrial Commission in 1919. Subsequently, she came to the attention of Franklin D. Roosevelt who, when he became governor in 1929, appointed her industrial commissioner of the state. When he was elected president in 1932, he appointed her secretary of labor, a post she held until 1945.
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:
41958
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Martha Ramsay Cruger: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1790-1840
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with black paper underlay and overmat
Dimensions:
image height: 2 1/8 in. ( 5.4 cm )
sheet: 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 6.7 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from white paper affixed to oval black paper backing with applied black paper border.
Credit Line:
Schell Fund
Object Number:
Z.2433
Marks:
inscription in graphite: on back: "Martha Ramsay / Mrs. John Cruger / grandmother / . . . [?]"
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed in graphite: "Martha Ramsay / Mrs. John Cruger's / grandmother"
Gallery Label:
This portrait represents the wife of John Cruger, Sr. (1677-1744) or the wife of a descendant of his.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
41955
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Eleanor Ramsay: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1790-1840
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper with black paper underlay
Dimensions:
image height: 2 in. ( 5.1 cm )
sheet: 2 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. ( 6.4 x 5.4 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of female subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from oval piece of cream paper with roughly rectangular black paper backing.
Credit Line:
Schell Fund
Object Number:
Z.2434
Marks:
inscription in ink: on back: "Eleanor Ramsay"
inscription in pencil: on back: "Mrs. FitzWilliam / mother of . . . [?]"
inscription in pencil: on paper found with object: "CRUGER FAMILY"
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed at center in brown ink: "Eleanor Ramsay"; below in graphite: "Mrs. FitzWilliam[?] / Mother of [illegible]"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
41954
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Harriet Cruger: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1790-1840
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 4 1/16 x 3 1/16 in. ( 10.3 x 7.8 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of lightweight cream paper with inscription in ink on front; blind embossed stamp in LR corner: "TODD"
Credit Line:
Schell Fund
Object Number:
Z.2435
Marks:
inscription in ink: on front: "Harriet Cruger"
blind embossed stamp: on front, LR corner: "TODD"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Harriet Cruger"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
41953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Eliza Livingston: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
1790-1840
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
sheet: 3 1/4 x 2 9/16 in. ( 8.3 x 6.5 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of female subject in left-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of lightweight cream paper with inscription in ink on front.
Credit Line:
Schell Fund
Object Number:
Z.2436
Marks:
inscription ink: on front: "Eliza Livingston [or?] Mrs. Otto"
inscription in pencil: on paper found with object: "CRUGER FAMILY"
Inscriptions:
Verso inscribed at left vertically in brown ink: "Eliza Livingston- ie Mrs Otto""
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
41952
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified Cruger Family Man: Silhouette
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1790-1840
Medium:
Hollow-cut beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
sheet: 3 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. ( 9.8 x 8.3 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of male subject in right-facing profile; hollow-cut from rectangular sheet of lightweight cream paper.
Credit Line:
Schell Fund
Object Number:
Z.2437
Marks:
inscription in pencil: on paper found with object: "CRUGER FAMILY"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
41951
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Cruger: Silhouette
Classification:
Date:
c. 1700 ?
Medium:
Black ink on beige paper
Dimensions:
image height: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
sheet: 4 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. ( 11.4 x 7.9 cm )
Description:
Silhouette: Bust of boy in left-facing profile, in gouache on oval piece of paper with inscription in ink below portrait.
Credit Line:
Schell Fund
Object Number:
Z.2438
Marks:
inscription: below bust: "John Cruger. / in London."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "John Cruger. / in London."
Gallery Label:
This portrait represents John Cruger, Sr. (1677-1744) or a descendant of his. Cruger, of German extraction, probably came to New York from Bristol, England, in 1698. He prospered in the shipping trade, and lived in a fine mansion on Broad Street, some of the furnishings and silver from which are preserved in public and private collections. Cruger was an alderman in New York from 1712 to 1734 and was appointed mayor in 1744, an office he held continuously until his death.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1690
eMuseum Object ID:
41949
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Surgeon General Thomas Parran (1892-1968)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. ( 50.2 x 46.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number:
1947.203
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label:
A native of Maryland, the subject received his M.D. from Georgetown University in 1915 and entered the public health service two years later. He was named commissioner of the New York State Department of Health in 1930, and held the office of surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service from 1936 to 1948. He established the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, and was a founder of the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health.
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:
41921
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pages
