Portrait #1730

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Diggs, Lemuel Whitley
  • Artist:Posner, Billy Price
  • Date Created:1961
  • Owner/Location:UT Medical Center-Memphis 162 S. Dumlap Memphis, TN 38163 www.utmem.edu/medicine/
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  • Materials/Media:Oil
  • Date Documented:March 2008
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Subject is wearing a lab coat and sitting in front of a table that holds a microscope and various other items of medical equipment. His left arm is resting on the table and his left lightly holds a pencil and is resting on his right knee. He wears black trousers, white shirt and blue striped tie and is looking directly at the viewer through his glasses. He is bald, and the fringe above his ears is salt-and-pepper grey.
  • History:Artist's signature is on lower right of portrait.
  • Notes:Director of the Department of Medical Laboratories and Professor of Medicine