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Brenda Putnam

Brenda Putnam

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Object Details

Title:
Brenda Putnam
Date:
1929
Artist:
Medium:
Charcoal on paper on board
Dimensions
12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom left of drawing in red ink]: stamped signature; [bottom left of drawing, below stamp, in graphite]: Brenda Putnam; [bottom right of drawing in graphite]: VO [superimposed] / mid-Ocean / 1929; [verso in black ink]: Miss Brenda Putnam, sculptor / (Done in Rome) / Father was Librarian of Congress

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