Bar in Hotel Scribe, National Portrait Gallery

Bar in Hotel Scribe

Creation Date: 1944
Types: Caricature
Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Materials: Canvas
Oil
Subjects: A. J. Liebling
Bill Reusswig
British
Chair
Charles Wertenbaker
Cigarette
David Edward Scherman
Donald MacKenzie
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Eyeglasses
Floyd MacMillan Davis
French
Gladys Rockmore Davis
Glass
Graham Miller
Ham Green
Hammer and sickle
Hans Von Kaltenborn
Hugh Schuck
Janet Flanner
Lee Miller
Merrill Mueller
Military
Nazi
Noel Busch
Photograph
Ralph Morse
Richard De Rochemont
Robert Allen Cromie
Robert Capa
Robin Duff
Stool
Table
USSR
United States
Will Lang
William Lawrence Shirer
Wine bottle

Dimensions: 48.3 x 74.3 x 2.5cm (19 x 29 1/4 x 1")
68.6 x 94 x 6.4cm (27 x 37 x 2 1/2")

Accession #: NPG.88.57
Object #: 7823
Credit Lines: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
(Illustration House, New York); purchased by NPG 1988 Note: According to the original catalog card at the time of acquisition the provenance was: Overseas Press Club, New York; estate of Mary Hemingway; Tepper Galleries, New York; Jerry Balaban, Flushing, N.Y.; (Illustration House, Inc., New York) The source of this information is not known. The painting was reproduced on the cover of Dateline 1979 [Overseas Press Club of America], and described as owned by Mary Hemingway [Editor’s Note, p. 3].