Collection Highlights
The Dead at Gettysburg
Date:
ca. 1863
Object Number:
PR.164.4.38.GettysburgDead
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953)
Object Number:
1947.159
Date:
c. 1945
Medium:
Graphite and red crayon on heavy paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 3/4 x 20 in. ( 62.9 x 50.8 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
In the background of this sketch are the buildings of the California Institute of Technology where Millikan served on the first physics faculty and carried on his research for a quarter of a century before retiring in 1945, about the time this portrait was made.
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.
