Head of an Old Man

c. 1908

Frank Brangwyn

Artist, British, 1867 - 1956

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk on gray flecked cardboard

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 37 x 27.5 cm (14 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.60

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Haldane Macfall [1860-1928], London; (Brian Sewell, London, 1980); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1980; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 167 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper center verso in blue ink: Possibly a sketch connected with / "The Return of the Messengers of the Promised Land", / exhibited RA 1908, and now in the / Johannesburg Museum. / Haldane MacFall was the art critic of / the [News?] Chronicle, and an [Not deciphered] ad[mirer?] / of Brangwyn.; by later hand, center right verso in graphite, circled: 11110; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 8 x 7; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: orig sketch / Brangwyn; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 40; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: [Not deciphered] / Beige / [Not deciphered] pencil at Bottom / [Not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q64569793

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