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Portrait study of George Walter Dawson, Professor of Drawing, University of Pennsylvania
Portrait study of George Walter Dawson, Professor of Drawing, University of Pennsylvania

Portrait study of George Walter Dawson, Professor of Drawing, University of Pennsylvania

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of George Walter Dawson, Professor of Drawing, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Black pastel on paper on board under framing mat of beige paper
Dimensions
14 x 10 7/8
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom right of drawing in red ink]: stamped signature / stamped monogram initials; [verso in black ink]: George Walter Dawson, artist (head only) / Faculty of Univ. of Pa. School of Architecture / (P.A.F.A. prize establ. In his honor) / V.O.Born in 1870 in Andover, MA, Dawson studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and PAFA. He was a Professor of Drawing at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a noted watercolorist. In 1938, he established the James Smyth Warner Memorial Prize to be awarded for a student in architecture at the university.

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