Portrait Sketch with Notes about Sitter
Datec. 1934
MediumCrayon on wove paper
Dimensionssheet: 13 15/16 × 9 3/4 in. (35.4 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1985
Object number1985-85
On View
Not on viewPortrait Sketch with Notes about Sitter
Label TextBacon's notes amplify the elements of her portraits. Here she described the unidentified sitter's "heavy eyelids like clam shells" and "straight nose with arrogant nostrils."
