Collection Highlights
Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant
Date:
1656
Object Number:
LIB.Y.1656.D
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Dr. George David Birkhoff (1884-1944)
Object Number:
1947.185
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Crayon, graphite, and touches of white tempera on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 3/8 x 18 3/8 in. ( 56.8 x 46.7 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The subject of this painting was a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and one of the leading mathematicians in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century.
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.
