Object numberX.16

Study of a Head

Daten.d.

Artist Elizabeth Coffin (American, 1850-1930)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 27 7/16 x 21 5/16 x 7/8 in. (69.69 x 54.13 x 2.22 cm)
Unframed: 22 1/4 x 16 1/8 in. (56.52 x 40.96 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist, class of 1870

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedSigned (LR): Elizabeth R. Coffin

Vassar Exhibitions

Women Picturing Women: From Personal Spaces to Public Venture

American Stories 1800-1950

Revealed Anew: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC(Prints and Drawings Gallery), Vassar College, "Revealed Anew: Selections from Permanent Collections," 7 November - 4 January 2008;

Poughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000.

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "American Stories 1800 - 1950," January 29 - April 17, 2016

Terms

portraits

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