Artist/Maker
Enit Zerner Kaufman
(1897 - 1961)
Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965)
1940-1945
Watercolor, gouache, white tempera, and graphite on heavy watercolor paper
Overall: 20 3/4 x 16 in. ( 52.7 x 40.6 cm )
Gift of Enit Kaufman
1947.196
A native of Iowa, the subject worked as a journalist in his home state until 1933 when he was called to Washington to become secretary of agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He held that office until he was elected vice-president for Roosevelt's third term. He became a leader of the liberal movement in the late 1940s and was the Progressive party's unsuccessful candidate for president in 1948.
DescriptionPortraitMarkingsinscriptions: Signature in ink lower left.
InscribedSigned at lower left in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Enit Zerner Kaufman
ca. 1940–1945
1947.165
