Collection Highlights
Negro Life at the South
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-225
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Mrs. McCurdy: Study for a Portrait
Object Number:
1935.85.1.71
Date:
1878-1883
Medium:
Black ink on paper laid on a grayish-green sheet
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in graphite at lower left on grayish-green mount: "Sketch of arrangement / for Mrs. McCurdy's portrait / 78-79"; at lower right: notations for measurements of canvasses
Description:
Drawing from a bound album with 180 drawings (179 tipped in, one on verso of albumn page) by Beckwith and Sargent.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
