Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Dr. William David Coolidge (1873-1975)
Object Number:
1947.233
Date:
c. 1945
Medium:
Graphite and red chalk on buff paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. ( 59.7 x 47.6 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Coolidge was a specialist in physico-chemistry at the General Electric Co. in Schenectady and in 1932 became the director of the research laboratory there. In 1941 he was appointed to the group working on the atomic bomb and five years later was made head of the atomic research and development laboratory at Hanford, Washington. This portrait is part of Kaufman's series of notable American men and women, many of whom were connected with the first atomic bomb and with the research that followed.
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.
