TitleFrederick Dielman
Artist
Alphaeus Philemon Cole
(American, 1876 - 1988)
Date1927
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 25 in.
Framed: 40 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 1 7/8 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Alphaeus P. Cole / 1927"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Purchase ?, 1936
Object number256-P
Label TextIn 1934 the Council resolved to pursue acquisition of portraits of recent former presidents of the Academy, presumably in order to have images of these men more accurately representing their appearances at the time they held the office than would their Associate diploma portraits. Ipsen's portrait of Harry Watrous was acquired in March 1936, and noted as the first response to the resolution. Dielman had died in 1935; although acquisition of Cole's portrait of him is not explicitly recorded in Academy minutes, it is likely the portrait noted as "accepted" by the Council at its meeting of December 7, 1936. The minutes entry is garbled, but suggests the work was purchased. The portrait was painted at a time when Dielman headed the Cooper Union art faculty, of which Cole was a member.
