Object Details
Artist
Duncan Grant
Date
ca. 1924
Medium
Charcoal and red chalk on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 24 1/2 × 21 7/8 inches (62.2 × 55.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired through the Professor and Mrs. M. H. Abrams Purchase Fund
Object
Number
2005.075
Mina Kirstein Curtiss was an author, editor, translator, and teacher who, in the 1920s, was involved(…)
Mina Kirstein Curtiss was an author, editor, translator, and teacher who, in the 1920s, was involved for a time with the Bloomsbury group in England and thus came into Grant’s orbit. This sketch was a study for the oil on canvas in the collection of her brother, Lincoln Kirstein, cofounder of the New York City Ballet.The differences in the two are quite startling; in the drawing, Mina looks like a much younger, livelier woman, aided by gestural drawing of the charcoal and chalk, but in the painting she appears openly sad and a withdrawn, careworn figure. (“Drawing the Line: 150 Years of European Artists on Paper,” curated by Nancy E. Green and presented at the Johnson Museum January 20–June 10, 2018)
