Collection Highlights
The Lost Cause
Date:
1871
Object Number:
PR.068.19
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Profile Portrait of Burton J. Hendrick (1870-1949)
Object Number:
1990.1.236
Date:
1937
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower center: "Wm H Walker"
inscription: left: "BURTON / HENDRICKS / DUTCH TREAT CLUB / OCT. 26" '37"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower center in graphite: "Wm. H. Walker"; inscribed at middle left: "BURTON / HENDRICKS / DURCH TREAT CLUB / OCT. 26'' '37"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
A journalist and biographer, the subject won three Pulitzer prizes for biography in the 1920s. His "Bulwark of the Republic: A Biography of the Constitution" appeared in 1937.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
