Collection Highlights
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Date:
1885-1886
Object Number:
LIB.XL.CT.G763.A3
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)
Object Number:
1947.183
Date:
1944
Medium:
Watercolor, white tempera, and graphite on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 x 19 in. ( 58.4 x 48.3 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower right in black ink: "Enit Kaufman 1944"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Henry J. Kaiser was born in Canajoharie, New York, the son of Frank and Mary (Yapps) Kaiser. An industrialist and corporate executive, he was involved during the 1930s in the construction of Boulder, Parker, and Grand Coulee Dam, and in the erection of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
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.
