Henry Ford

1918

Fred Hartsook

Associated Names
Fred Hartsook

Artist, American, 1876 - 1930

The image depicts a man in a suit, standing upright with his arms crossed. He has a long, narrow face with deep-set eyes, a slight smile, and neatly combed light-colored hair. The man is wearing a dark jacket, a shirt, and a patterned tie, with a boutonnière on the lapel. The oval frame around his head has markings and scribbles, including sketches or annotations. The background is a plain gradient, darker at the top and lighter at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 23.4 × 18.5 cm (9 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.278

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Rhys M. Yeakley, Wilder, ID; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black, white, and gray paint; by unknown hand, upper left and upper right illegible printing notes in black paint, graphite, and grease pencil; lower center illegible printing notes in white paint; bottom left in white paint: © / HARTSOOK / PHOTOS / S.F.--L.A.; on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: Henry Ford; upper center: 1-2-3; center stamped in black ink: CREDIT HARTSOOK; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: A153; lower right stamped in purple ink: REFERENCE DEPT. / APR 20 1918 / N. E. A.

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