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Portrait of Edwin S. Clymer

Portrait of Edwin S. Clymer

Artist: Thomas Pollock Anshutz (American, 1851 - 1912)

Sitter/Subject: Edwin Swift Clymer (American, 1871 - 1949)

Medium: pastel on paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 38 x 29 in. (96.5 x 73.7 cm)
Framed: 48 x 39 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (121.9 x 99.7 x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line:Bequest, Edwin S. Clymer Estate
Object number: 1951.6.1

While Anshutz was born in Kentucky and studied art in New York City, he is generally considered a Pennsylvania artist because he moved there to study painting under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Like Eakins, his mentor, Anshutz went on to teach at the Academy and counted among his students artists such as John Sloan, Charles Sheeler, Edward Redfield, and Lancaster’s own Charles Demuth. Anshutz succeeded William Merritt Chase as director of the prestigious Academy.

The sitter of this large pastel, Edwin Swift Clymer, was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia where he studied with Anshutz and Hugh Breckenridge. He is posed in this work with a cello, perhaps a studio prop. The incense burner in the background appears as a still life element in other works by Anshutz.

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