The Andrea Da Messina Portrait

Kenneth Southworth Davies, American, 1925 - 2017

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1952

Lithograph on wove paper

Image: 12 1/2 × 9 7/16 in. (31.7 × 24 cm)

Sheet: 16 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (41.3 × 31.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

PR.955.17

Publisher

Associated American Artists, New York

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on stone, on trading card, upper right: SITTING BULL / SHIENNE TRIBE; inscribed, on stone, on letter, upper right: [Y]ou think that a rose by an other name would / [s]mell [indistinct] not. / Alice B Toklas / Paris France [return address on letter]; NEW BEDFORD / 5PM / [indistinct] 66 / MASS. [postmark on letter]; inscribed, on stone, on scrap of paper, center left: EST REAL; inscribed, on stone, image of Custer, lower left: GEN CUSTER / INDIAN CHEWING GUM; signed and dated, on stone, on scrap of paper, lower left: KEN DAVIES '52; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Ken Davies

Provenance

Associated American Artists, New York; sold to present collection, 1955.

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