Collection Highlights
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Date:
1885-1886
Object Number:
LIB.XL.CT.G763.A3
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)
Object Number:
1947.176
Date:
c. 1945
Medium:
Black crayon on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 14 3/4 in. ( 48.3 x 37.5 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in black crayon: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait earned a Ph.D. in languages at Columbia University in 1904 and soon thereafter began to make a name for herself in literary circles. She wrote the biographical entries that accompanied Kaufman's sketches for "American Portraits: Pictures by Enit Kaufman" (1946).
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
