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Portrait head study of British artist Maxwell Armfield in profile
Portrait head study of British artist Maxwell Armfield in profile

Portrait head study of British artist Maxwell Armfield in profile

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait head study of British artist Maxwell Armfield in profile
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Pastel on light gray paper
Dimensions
12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower right in red ink]: stamped signature / stamped monogram initials; [bottom left in graphite]: Maxwell Armfield -- British artist; [verso in graphite, inverted]: Africa / & / SicilyArmfield was a British painter, illustrator and writer. Because of his wife, the author and playwright Constance Smedley, Armfield became a pacifist and Christian Scientist.

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