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Portrait of Ezra Davenport

Clarence Holbrook Carter, 1929

90 cm × 1.13 m

About the size of a cafe table. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 1.13 m
Width: 90 cm
Medium: oil on canvas
Kind: Painting
Made in: America
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: Unframed: 113 x 90.2 cm (44 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)
Credit: Gift of The Huntington National Bank

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 90 cm × 1.13 m. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1929. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Gift of The Huntington National Bank.
How was it made?: Oil on canvas, made in America, America.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.