Collection Highlights
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.60
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Ernest Joseph King (1878-1956)
Object Number:
1947.175
Date:
c. 1945
Medium:
Brown chalk and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 3/4 x 19 1/8 in. ( 60.3 x 48.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
A native of Lorain, Ohio, King was a career naval officer and chief of naval operations during most of World War II. He was present as a presidential advisor at the Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences, and was decorated by the United States and many foreign countries.
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.
