DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Study of a Male Face

19th-20th century

Artists

Denman Waldo RossArtist

Description

Drawing is made on the verso of a typed manuscript page with editing in graphite in the artist's hand. The page begins, "I advise the student starting into the practice of painting to devote a third of his time to the study of pictures..."

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 28 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

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