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Casimir Funk – Vintage Print

Casimir Funk, [ca. 1927] — historic drawing
Casimir Funk, [ca. 1927]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Casimir Funk, the Polish-born biochemist, appears here in an ink drawing over graphite dated around 1927, with the pencil underdrawing still visible beneath the firmer inked lines. Funk is remembered for coining the word "vitamine" in 1912, a blend of "vital" and "amine," later shortened to "vitamin" as scientists learned that not all of these compounds contained amines. Drawn during the 1920s, when portrait sketches of scientists and public figures were common in print, the work shows how an artist could build a likeness quickly and then sharpen the features with confident strokes.

Created / published[ca. 1927]
Medium1 drawing : ink over graphite.
GenrePortrait drawings 1920-1930.Ink drawings 1920-1930.
SubjectsFunk, Casimir,--1884-1967.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,144 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109626

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