Portrait of Me (Improved), 1923

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 21.11 × 14.29 cm (8 5/16 × 5 5/8 in.)

sheet: 35.56 × 25.4 cm (14 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Theodore Baldwin III)

Catalogue Raisonné

Jones 1975, undescribed

Accession Number

2015.19.2517

Artists / Makers

Rockwell Kent (artist) American, 1882 - 1971

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Inscription

lower left on stone: Portrait of me / (improved) / Rockwell Kent 1923.; lower left in graphite: (for being a good girl / and eating up everything / on her plate !) everything? / Well - nearly everything!; lower right in graphite: To my darling Janie / with whole oceans of love. / Rockwell - / Arlington - Christmas 1924.; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 7033; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2

Provenance

Mrs. Theodore Baldwin, III, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1971; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Baldwin, Theodore III
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1978: Artists and Their Circles, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

1981: The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 19

Bibliography

1924: Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan. New York: Halycon House, 1924, frontispiece.