Portrait #874

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Crabb, Alfred Leland (1884-1979)
  • Artist:Gill, Elizabeth
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:Special Collections Division Nashville Public Library 615 Church Street Nashville, TN 37219
  • Frame Dimensions:28 ½ x 23
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:6 August 2007
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:An elderly Alfred Leland Crabb, balding, with grey hair and glasses. He is wearing a jacket, vest, white shirt, and rust colored tie.
  • History:unknown
  • Notes:Born in Kentucky in 1884, author, educator, and historian Alfred Leland Crabb was educated at Bethel College, Peabody College, University of Chicago, and Columbia University. He married Bertha Gardner in 1911. Crabb became editor of the Peabody Journal of Education in 1932, a position he continued to hold until 1970 after retiring from his teaching career at Peabody in 1949. Crabb is most famous for his historical novels.