The Andrea Da Messina Portrait
Kenneth Southworth Davies, American, 1925 - 2017
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
Research Area
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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