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Robert Benchley – Historic Print

Robert Benchley, [between 1920 and 1957] — historic drawing
Robert Benchley, [between 1920 and 1957]. 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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Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley, the humorist and drama critic, is the subject of this ink-over-graphite drawing, a caricature that exaggerates the features that made him recognizable to readers of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Benchley (1889-1945) built his reputation on wry, self-deprecating pieces about the small indignities of daily life, and he was also a well-known presence in the Algonquin Round Table circle in New York during the 1920s. Caricaturists of that period often worked in this loose, quick style, using pen lines over a light pencil sketch to capture a sitter's personality as much as his likeness. The record dates the drawing only to a span between 1920 and 1957, so its exact occasion is not known.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1957]
Medium1 drawing : ink over graphite underdrawing.
GenreCaricatures American 1920-1960.Drawings 1920-1960.
Notes(DLC/PP-1983:69.25) This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.
SubjectsBenchley, Robert,--1889-1945.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,602 × 5,703 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226114

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