Museum Collections
Luce Center
Profile Portrait of Harry Foster Welch (1899-1973)
Object Number:
1990.1.229
Date:
1937
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm H Walker / Mar 9/37"
inscriptions: right: "your pal / Harry (PopEye) Welch / Mar 1937" and lower center: "HARVEY FOSTER WELCH / VOCAL CARICATURIST"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm H Walker / Mar 9/37 / HARVEY FOSTER WELCH / VOCAL CARICATURIST"; signed by sitter at lower right: "your pal / Harvey (popEye) Welch / Mar 1937"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The subject was an entertainer described as the "man with 1,000 voices."
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.