Portrait #1738

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  • Subject/Title:Witterborg, August Hermsmeir 1883-1941
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:Unknown
  • 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 seated on a banquette in nearly left profile. His left hand holds a pipe and that arm is resting on the table in front of him. His right elbow is resting on the back of the bench to his right, and his right hand falls loosely in front of his chest. He is wearing a lab coat over a white shirt and dark coat and tie, and his thinning grey hair is parted on his left. There is a skull upside down on the talbe in the lower left of the portrait, and the subject is gazing to the viewer's left.
  • Notes:Professor of Anatomy at University of Tennessee-Medical