Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Portrait of Friedrich Schorr (1888-1953)
Object Number:
1990.1.131
Date:
1931
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 11/16 x 5 1/2 in. ( 19.5 x 14 cm )
Marks:
inscription, date, and signature: lower left: "Dutch Treat / Mar 10/31 / Wm HWalker"
inscriptions: lower right: "friedSchorr" and "FRIEDRICH / SCHORR / MET. OPERA CO Baritone"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower left in graphite: "Dutch Treat / Mar 10/31 / Wm. H.Walker"; at lower right: "FRIEDRICH / SCHORR / MET. OPERA Co. Baritone"; signed by sitter at lower right: "Fried Schorr"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The subject, an opera singer, was born in Nagyvarad, Hungary (later Rumania). He performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera Co. from 1924 to 1943.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
