Collection Highlights
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South
Date:
March, 1909
Object Number:
PR.020.19.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Five Studies of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Object Number:
1947.200
Date:
c. 1942-1945
Medium:
Pastel, watercolor, and chalk on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (78.1 x 57.8 cm)
Marks:
inscriptions: no signature
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The artist's portraits of General Eisenhower were probably preparatory sketches for a finished portrait to be placed in Kaufman's American Century series. These sketches were drawn not from life, but from photographs.
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.
