Portrait of Everett LeRoi Jones

Art © Estate of Larry Rivers/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Portrait of Everett LeRoi Jones

Currently not on view

Portrait of Everett LeRoi Jones,

ca. 1956

Larry Rivers, American, 1923–2002
2016-69

Information

Title
Portrait of Everett LeRoi Jones
Dates

ca. 1956

Maker
Larry Rivers
Medium
Graphite with erasures and scraping
Dimensions
35.6 × 42.8 cm (14 1/16 × 16 7/8 in.) framed: 51.4 × 61 cm (20 1/4 × 24 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Anitra Christoffel-Pell and Robert L. Pell, Class of 1955
Object Number
2016-69
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower right: Larry Rivers
Inscription
Inscribed in graphite, center right: LeRoi Jones
Culture
American
Type
sketches, drawings
Materials
graphite, wove paper
Techniques
scraping
Subject
authors, poets, men, portraits, faces

Bequeathed to The Princeton University Art Museum by Anitra Christofell-Pell, the widow of the late Robert (Robin) Pell, Class of 1956

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