Portrait head study of British artist Maxwell Armfield in profile
Date
Date unknownMedium
Pastel on light gray paperCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.Description & Inscriptions
[lower right in red ink]: stamped signature / stamped monogram initials; [bottom left in graphite]: Maxwell Armfield -- British artist; [verso in graphite, inverted]: Africa / & / Sicily
Armfield was a British painter, illustrator and writer. Because of his wife, the author and playwright Constance Smedley, Armfield became a pacifist and Christian Scientist.
Armfield was a British painter, illustrator and writer. Because of his wife, the author and playwright Constance Smedley, Armfield became a pacifist and Christian Scientist.
