Collection Highlights
Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), Havell plate no. 26
Date:
c. 1825
Object Number:
1863.17.26
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, gouache, and black ink with scraping and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Portrait of Mary Pickford (1892-1979)
Object Number:
1990.1.157
Date:
1933
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. ( 20.6 x 14 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: right: "Wm H Walker / Feb 14/ 33"
inscription: lower center: "Mary Pickford"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at middle right in graphite: "Wm H Walker / Feb 14/33"; signed by sitter at lower center: "Mary Pickford"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Silent film star and founding member of United Artists film studio, Pickford began her career as a child, supporting her family by performing in traveling theater. As a film star, she continued to play young girls into her thirties. She retired in the early 1930s to a reclusive life at "Pickfair," the estate she shared with her husband, the actor Douglas Fairbanks.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
