Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of an Old Man
John Kavanagh
- Date
- c. 1884
- Medium
- charcoal; framing line in graphite (lower margin)
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This charcoal study by Cleveland-based artist John Kavanagh shows the dramatic use of contrasting light and shade (chiaroscuro) and the detailed modeling favored by students at the Royal Academy in Munich, where the artist studied in the early 1880s.
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