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Portrait #119
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| Subject/Title: | Craig, Cornelius Abernathy #2 |
| Artist: | Hergesheimer,
Ella Sophonisba |
| Date
Created: | 1930-31 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 48 x 37 |
| Image Dimensions: | 41.5 x 31 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 7/2/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Knee-length
nearly frontal standing of older man in grey business suit, white shirt, and
red tie. A white handkerchief extends from his jacket breast pocket. His
matching vest has five buttons and his gold watch chain falls between buttons
four and five. His left hand is in his pants pocket, and his right rests
on a book. He has straight silver hair and glasses |
| History: | A duplicate exists. C.A. Craig, the subject, commissioned 2 identical portraits, simultaneously--one for each of his children. One is now owned by his granddaughter. |
| Notes: | Sitter
was born in 1868 and died in 1957.
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