Collection Highlights
Petition from Lydia Heckle to Marinus Willett, Mayor of New York, re: Miranda expedition, May 16, 1807
Date:
1807
Object Number:
MSS.NewYorkCity.Misc.1
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Raymond Gram Swing (1887-1968)
Object Number:
1947.192
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on watercolor board
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. ( 51.4 x 39.1 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in black watercolor: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Cortland, N.Y., entered journalism as a young man and from 1914 to 1917 was war correspondent in Berlin and Paris for the Chicago "Daily News." In the 1930s he attracted a following of millions through his low-keyed presentation of the news over British, American, and Canadian radio networks.
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.
