Charles Evans Hughes

(515)
1949
New York, NY & Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (80 x 69.8 cm)
Signed, dated, inscribed on right: "E W Dickinson 1949 / . . ard"
Private Collection
Photo: Balthazar Korab

Notes

Notes: Painted in New York, NY and Wellfleet, MA; 1949: January 22 "I shall do a CEH (estate pd) this summer, June 7 "Got good photo of Uncle Charles to do it size 28/33.", 29 "stretched 28-32 for CEH portrait - ", July 12, 13 "wrote Elizabeth Gossett $800=.", 22 "Began squaring off 28/32 of Uncle Charles.", 23, more squaring off, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, August 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18 "began head", 19, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, September 1, 16 CEH came from Wellfleet, 28, October 20, 27, 28, 31, November 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 "finished head in portrait.", 15, 16, 17, 19 he to frame portrait, 21, 23, 29 got frame for CEH, 30, December 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 19, 26 "background".

1950: January 4, 5 "took CEH frame to Lowy & had it toned. fini CEH portrait painted 48 [sittings]", 9, 11 "finished portrait of Uncle Charles. a relief.", 12 took portrait to Juley [photographer].", 30 "painted briefly fini Uncle Charles Portrait. Took it to Lowy's".

Provenance

Elizabeth Hughes Gossett
Private Collection
Mrs. John W. Wendler
Elizabeth (Nell) Gossett Karaman? / Wendler?

Exhibition History

No known exhibitions