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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.
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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.
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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".
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Century Drawings
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