Self-portrait [drawing].

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Record ID: 
288986
Accession number: 
MA 4291.51
Author: 
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Published: 
1926 Nov. 29.
Credit: 
Anonymous gift, 1971.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Signed "EEC" and dated "29/11/26" on recto. "Self-portrait 1920's" in pencil on verso.
Part of a collection of 21 letters from E. E. Cummings to Mina Curtiss (MA 4292.1-21); 7 letters from Marion Morehouse to Mina Curtiss (MA 4293.1-7); 51 drawings and sketches (MA 4291.1-51); and 4 photographs (MA 4291.52-55). Items are cataloged individually in 83 records.

Summary: 

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Cummings wearing a tie and jacket, and with hair neatly combed back and gazing directly at the viewer.

Medium: 
Graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
280 x 216 mm
Classification: 
Credits: 
© by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust.