Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011482Portrait of an Old Man
About the Artwork
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.
Exhibition history
Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992). Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Kavanagh (American, 1857–1898)
- Date
- c. 1884
- Medium
- charcoal; framing line in graphite (lower margin)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 49 x 38.7 cm (19 5/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. A. J. Weatherhead
- Accession no.
- 1944.8
More by John Kavanagh in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011482
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