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Samuel Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett

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Artist: Edward Biberman, 23 Oct 1904 - 27 Jan 1986
Sitter: Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 25 May 1894 - 10 Jan 1961

Date: 1937

Type: Painting

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Stretcher: 102.2 x 76.5 x 2.5cm (40 1/4 x 30 1/8 x 1"); Frame: 118.1 x 92.4 x 5.7cm (46 1/2 x 36 3/8 x 2 1/4")

Topic: Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses; Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache; Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigarette; Samuel Dashiell Hammett: Male; Samuel Dashiell Hammett: Literature\Writer\Novelist; Samuel Dashiell Hammett: Literature\Writer\Screenwriter; Samuel Dashiell Hammett: Law and Crime\Police\Detective; Portrait

Place: United States\California\Los Angeles\Los Angeles

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Restrictions & Rights: Usage conditions apply
Copyright: © 1937 Edward Biberman

Object number: NPG.85.1

Provenance: The artist; purchased 1985 NPG

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery

Exhibition: 20th Century Americans: 1930-1960
On View: NPG, South Gallery 321

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