246.4 x 124.8 x 5.1cm (97 x 49 1/8 x 2") 243.8 x 122.2 x 5.1cm (96 x 48 1/8 x 2")
Accession #
NPG.96.127
Object #
7348
Credit Lines
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc. The artist; gift to sitter; gift 1963 to Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., New York; gift 1996 to NPG Joan T. Washburn to Carolyn Carr, Curator NPG March 8, 1995: “Elaine de Kooning painted Merce Cunningham in 1962 and gave him this portrait….Merce donated his portrait to the Foundation several years ago to be sold for its benefit.”
