Charles Evans Hughes

(113)
1923
Washington, DC
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Signed, dated upper left: "E W Dickinson 1923"
Photo: Balthazar Korab

Notes

Painted in Washington, DC, in the Board Room of the Corcoran Gallery, when Hughes was Secretary of State. Portrait commissioned but rejected. To EHS, September 22, 1924"The Hughes portrait has been invited to Chicago . . . "

Provenance

Elizabeth Hughes Gossett
Meadow Brook Art Gallery

Exhibition History

1924 Art Institute of Chicago: as "Portrait of Secretary Hughes"
1957–58 Cornell University: Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956