High-quality canvas wall art with a matte finish. Each canvas includes back hanging hardware for convenient display. The frame is made from radiata pine sourced from renewable forests.
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Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 - George M. Cohan - 1933 - Canvas Wall Art
This charcoal portrait shows a man's head and shoulders, turned slightly toward the viewer, with a broad forehead, receding hair brushed back from the temples and a dark suit with a white collar and tie. His eyes are narrowed under heavy lids, and the mouth curves into a faint, knowing half-smile. Fine crosshatching models the face, with the lightest passages picked out in white chalk on the brow and collar, and the dark jacket anchors the lower half of the sheet. The warm buff paper shows through between the strokes, and the artist's signature sits at lower left.
The sitter is George M. Cohan, the American actor, playwright, composer and producer, identified in the catalogue record by name. Cohan was the central figure of the Broadway stage in the first decades of the twentieth century, writing and performing songs and musicals such as Little Johnny Jones and the patriotic favourites Over There and Yankee Doodle Boy. The wry, self-assured expression in this drawing suits a performer whose persona rested on confidence, quick wit and an easy command of the audience.