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Artist
Soss Efram Melik, 02 Aug 1914 - 11 Oct 2003
Sitter
Sinclair Lewis, 7 Feb 1885 - 10 Jan 1951
Date
1942
Type
Drawing
Medium
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions
Image: 35.5 × 16.5 cm (14 × 6 1/2")
Mat: 69.8 × 54.7 cm (27 1/2 × 21 9/16")
Frame: 75 × 60 × 2 cm (29 1/2 × 23 5/8 × 13/16")
Topic
Sinclair Lewis: Male
Sinclair Lewis: Literature\Writer\Novelist
Sinclair Lewis: Literature\Writer\Satirist
Sinclair Lewis: Nobel Prize
Sinclair Lewis: Pulitzer Prize
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution