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Portrait head study of Mrs. Joseph Wasserman (née Edith Stix) in profile
Portrait head study of Mrs. Joseph Wasserman (née Edith Stix) in profile

Portrait head study of Mrs. Joseph Wasserman (née Edith Stix) in profile

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait head study of Mrs. Joseph Wasserman (née Edith Stix) in profile
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Pastel on black paper
Dimensions
18 1/8 x 12 1/4 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[verso in graphite]: Mrs. WassermanMarried in St. Louis, MO, in 1899, the Wassermans settled in Philadelphia, where Joseph headed a rug manufactory, Artloom Corporation. They lived for a time on Greene Street in Germantown, an address worthy of note in Boyd's Blue Book of 1906. Three years later they moved into their new home, also in Philadelphia, at Wissahickon Avenue near W. Hortter Street. It was built by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer

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