- Title
- Rudyard Kipling
- Date Made
- 1930
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 15 1/8 x 7 1/2 x 10 in. (38.42 x 19.05 x 25.4 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.83.206.7
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
The career of Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) as a short-story writer and journalist is associated with late nineteenth-century British India.
Kipling’s inclusion in Davidson’s series of notable writers was deemed essential by George Doran of Doubleday, Doran & Co., but the author refused to sit for the portrait. Eventually Davidson resorted to sketching Kipling surreptitiously during a formal dinner. The head was shown as a sketch from memory at Davidson’s Knoedler exhibition in London.
- Selected Bibliography
- Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.