This fine drawing may very well depict the artist’s father, Joseph Hellmuth Jr. (1850-1939) a commercial painting contractor who would have been around 60 years of age.
Recto: Unmounted charcoal drawing on laid paper dated by artist within drawing at LR: Sept. 1910; tack holes in corners of upper margin.
Provenance
Purchased for this archive in July, 2012 from dealer in Hilton, N.Y. who conducted an estate clean-out of former Rochester, N.Y. home of Joseph Foote Hellmuth, the son of artist Charles A. Hellmuth.