Portrait of an Old Man
c. 1884
charcoal; framing line in graphite (lower margin)
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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of July 2026
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This charcoal study by Cleveland-based artist John Kavanagh shows the dramatic use of contrasting light and shade (chiaroscuro) and the detailed modeling favored by students at the Royal Academy in Munich, where the artist studied in the early 1880s.
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