BIB_ID
288854
Accession number
MA 4291.2
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Published
first half of the 20th cent.
Credit line
Anonymous gift, 1971.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Drawn on a postcard; verso has "Edward Pierce Nagle / 20 West 8th St / NY City" in pencil, possibly in Cummings' hand. No postmark.
Edward Pierce Nagle was an painter and Cummings' friend from Harvard.
Part of a collection of 21 letters from E. E. Cummings to Mina Curtiss (MA 4292.1-21); 7 letters from Marion Morehouse to Mina Curtiss (MA 4293.1-7); 51 drawings and sketches (MA 4291.1-51); and 4 photographs (MA 4291.52-55). Items are cataloged individually in 83 records.
Edward Pierce Nagle was an painter and Cummings' friend from Harvard.
Part of a collection of 21 letters from E. E. Cummings to Mina Curtiss (MA 4292.1-21); 7 letters from Marion Morehouse to Mina Curtiss (MA 4293.1-7); 51 drawings and sketches (MA 4291.1-51); and 4 photographs (MA 4291.52-55). Items are cataloged individually in 83 records.
140 x 82 mm
Summary
Sketch of a balding man wearing glasses looking at a page on which he is writing or sketching. Titled "le chef d'tempe" in graphite in upper right corner.
Medium
graphite on paper.
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