Catalogue entry

Charles Evans Hughes
Catalogue no. 113
1923
Washington, DC
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Signed, dated upper left: "E W Dickinson 1923"
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, gift of Elizabeth Hughes Gossett
Photo: Balthazar Korab
Notes
Painted in Washington, DC, in the Board Room of the Corcoran Gallery, when Hughes was Secretary of State. Portrait commissioned but rejected. To EHS, September 22, 1924"The Hughes portrait has been invited to Chicago . . . "
Provenance
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett
Meadow Brook Art Gallery
Exhibition History
1924 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1924, as "Portrait of Secretary Hughes".
1927 Albright-Knox
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, 1927.
1957–58 Cornell University
Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Ithica, Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956, December 10, 1957–January 10, 1958.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Charles Evans Hughes, 1923 (Catalogue no. 113)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=113 (accessed on July 30, 2026).