1926
There is a pattern resembling a snowflake on the verso. A newspaper clipping with a photo of the subject is pinned to the drawing at u.l.c. with a straight pin. According to the caption, the photograph depicts Maurine Palmer, Contralto. Ross has inscribed in graphite on the clipping: Sunday Herald / Nov. 28 1926
actual: 28 x 21.8 cm (11 x 8 9/16 in.)
Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.
Black ink on off-white wove paper
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