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A quarter-length portrait of a white male with gray hair and mustache seated in a yellow chair …
Joseph Hilton
A quarter-length portrait of a white male with gray hair and mustache seated in a yellow chair …
A quarter-length portrait of a white male with gray hair and mustache seated in a yellow chair facing the viewer. He is wearing a gray three-piece suit with gold pocket watch chain, white collared shirt and black tie. His proper right arm is leaning on the crest rail of the chair and the other hand is partially in his coat pocket.
Joseph Hilton, Gari Melchers, 1915, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Joseph Hilton

Date1915
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 40 1/8 × 36 inches (101.9 × 91.4 cm)
Framed: 47 1/2 × 43 3/8 × 2 1/4 inches (120.7 × 110.2 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. John E. Cay and Mr. Joseph Hilton.
Object number1977.9
On View
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