Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Luce Center
Portrait of Rupert Hughes (1872-1956)
Object Number:
1990.1.181
Date:
1934
Medium:
Graphite on notepad paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 5 in. ( 19.4 x 12.7 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm HWalker / '34"
inscriptions: lower left: "never heard a shot / fired in aught / Save [Kundun?]" and lower right: "Rupert Hughes"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm H Walker / '34"; signed by sitter along lower edge: "Never heard a shot / fired in August / save Kindner(?) / Ruper Hughes"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Rupert Hughes was a poet, biographer and playwright. He wrote and directed motion pictures, wrote radio sketches, and also did radio commentary.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
