Collection Highlights
Plan of the Central Park, New York : Entry No. 4 in the competition
Date:
March 20, 1858
Object Number:
PR.003.234
Medium:
Ink and colored washes
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Luce Center
Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945); verso: unfinished portrait of a woman
Object Number:
1947.164
Date:
c. 1940
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache on heavy watercolor paper; watercolor
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. ( 64.1 x 50.2 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Walter Bradford Cannon was a physiologist and a pioneer in research on the interrelation of physiological and emotional reactions. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1899.
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.
