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Portrait head studies of Jascha Brodsky, Max Aronoff, and Orlando Cole; with group study of Felix Salmond and Charles Jaffe
Portrait head studies of Jascha Brodsky, Max Aronoff, and Orlando Cole; with group study of Felix Salmond and Charles Jaffe

Portrait head studies of Jascha Brodsky, Max Aronoff, and Orlando Cole; with group study of Felix Salmond and Charles Jaffe

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait head studies of Jascha Brodsky, Max Aronoff, and Orlando Cole; with group study of Felix Salmond and Charles Jaffe
Date:
1937
Artist:
Medium:
Graphite on printed paper on cream-colored paper with framing lines in graphite
Dimensions
11 x 13 1/4 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom right of drawing in graphite]: Violet Oakley / '37; [on cream-colored paper, between bottom framing lines, identifying figures above, in graphite]: Brodsky [space] Aronoff [space] Cole [space] Salmond & Jaffe; [bottom left in red pencil]: No. 2.aOakley sketched the musicians on the front and back covers of a printed program for the Summer Season 1937 of the Curtis String Quartet. With the exception of Salmond, the other musicians formed the quartet.

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