Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Paul Robeson (1898-1976); verso: unfinished sketch of same sitter
Object Number:
1947.212
Date:
c. 1944
Medium:
Black ink and watercolor; brown ink and wash, charcoal, and touches of white gouache on heavy paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 27 1/2 in. ( 55.9 x 69.9 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
In this portrait sketch it appears that Robeson may be wearing the costume and beard of his famous role of Othello which he performed in New York City in 1943-44.
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.
