Lesson
Object number2007.85.22
Artist
Guy Cercone
Date1934
MediumCardstock; Graphite
Credit LineGift of Joseph D'Andrea
DescriptionPencil drawing on rectangular cardstock. Drawing: portrait of Abraham Lincoln with an American flag draped over the right corner of portrait's frame, surrounded by baskets of flowers.Dimensions14.375 x 9.75 in. (36.5 x 24.8 cm)Signed"G.M. Cercone" in the viewer's bottom right corner.
MarksHandwritten text along bottom edge to the viewer's right of center "March the First 1934 Lesson".
Historical NotesDrawing from a correspondence course artist Guy Cercone took in the early 1930s. Guy Cercone was an Italian-American freelance artist who did work for local department stores in the 1940s-1950s.
Related person
Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865)
On View
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