Portrait of Mrs. J. Monroe Hewlett
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Violet Oakley (American, 1874–1960). Portrait of Mrs. J. Monroe Hewlett, 1937. Red, white, and black chalk (possibly Conté crayon) on beige, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, sheet: 15 11/16 × 11 11/16 in. (39.8 × 29.7 cm) frame: 23 1/8 × 17 1/8 × 2 in. (58.7 × 43.5 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Monroe and Estelle Hewlett Collection, 53.197. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Portrait of Mrs. J. Monroe Hewlett
Date
1937
Medium
Red, white, and black chalk (possibly Conté crayon) on beige, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
sheet: 15 11/16 × 11 11/16 in. (39.8 × 29.7 cm) frame: 23 1/8 × 17 1/8 × 2 in. (58.7 × 43.5 × 5.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed in lower right, in charcoal: "VIOLET OAKLEY / ROME, 1937"
Credit Line
Gift of the Monroe and Estelle Hewlett Collection
Accession Number
53.197
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