Collection Highlights
Kerchief
Date:
1776-1777
Object Number:
1952.63
Medium:
Linen
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Museum Collections
Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955)
Object Number:
1935.151
Date:
1935
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Gallery Label:
Harry Woodburn Chase was chancellor of New York University from 1933 to 1951, a member of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Association, and a trustee of several New York institutions. Lockman had already given a dozen of his portraits of prominent Americans to the Society, of which he was a member, when he painted this likeness of Chase.
Credit Line:
Painted from life for the Society
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
