Portrait of Me (Improved)
1923
Artist, American, 1882 - 1971
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.11 × 14.29 cm (8 5/16 × 5 5/8 in.)
sheet: 35.56 × 25.4 cm (14 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2517
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Catalogue Raisonné
Jones 1975, undescribed
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mrs. Theodore Baldwin, III, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1971; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
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.
Inscriptions
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
Wikidata ID
Q77008594