Artist/Maker
Enit Zerner Kaufman
(1897 - 1961)
Henry Lewis Stimson (1867-1950)
ca. 1940–1945
Watercolor and gouache on heavy watercolor paper
Overall: 21 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (54.6 × 44.5 cm)
Gift of Enit Kaufman
1947.157
The subject was born in New York, the son of Lewis Atterbury Stimson and Candace (Wheeler) Stimson. After graduating from Yale (1888) he attended Harvard law school and was admitted to the New York bar. He began his practice in New York in 1893 and soon thereafter became interested in politics. He served as secretary of war under President Taft and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and as secretary of state under President Hoover.
DescriptionPortraitMarkingssignature: lower right: "Enit Kaufman"
InscribedSigned at lower right in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Enit Zerner Kaufman
ca. 1940-1945
1947.232
Enit Zerner Kaufman
ca. 1940–1945
1947.165
