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Portrait study of unidentified man (a miner from the Ruhr), at the 1949 World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament, Caux, Switzerland
Portrait study of unidentified man (a miner from the Ruhr), at the 1949 World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament, Caux, Switzerland

Portrait study of unidentified man (a miner from the Ruhr), at the 1949 World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament, Caux, Switzerland

Moral Re-Armament Assembly
,
Caux, Switzerland

Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of unidentified man (a miner from the Ruhr), at the 1949 World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament, Caux, Switzerland
Date:
1949
Artist:
Medium:
Charcoal on paper on board
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 8 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom right of drawing in graphite]: Violet / Oakley / Caux, 1949 / Caux; [bottom left of board in graphite]: A Miner from the Ruhr; [bottom right of board in graphite]: P85; [verso on label in black ink]: Violet Oakley (Caux, 1949) / Charcoal drawing / A miner from the Ruhr

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