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Portrait sketch of Jerome Kern

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Benedikt F. Dolbin

Portrait sketch of Jerome Kern

1936
9 3/8 x 7 1/16 inches (238 x 180 mm)
Pen and black ink over traces of pencil on paper.
1974.42:38

Purchased on the Cary Fund.

Notes
One of 86 portrait sketches of musicians including the likenesses of most of the leading composers, conductors, and instrumentalists of the first half of the twentieth century. All were done from life, and many appeared in Musical America.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist in pen and black ink at lower left, "Jerome Kern (1936)", and signed at lower left of design area with initial "D".
Classification
Century Drawings