George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist known for works such as Porgy and Bess and “Rhapsody in Blue” (which premiered on this day in 1924). This 1926 painting by Belarusian-born American painter William Auerbach-Levy depicts Gershwin playing a piano.
George Gershwin at Piano
- Description
- Portrait of a man seated at a piano.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Painter
- William Auerbach-Levy, American, born Belarus, Imperial Russia, 1889–1964
- Date
- 1926
- Credit Line
- Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Max D. Levy, 1967, 67.109
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (framed): 114 × 139.7 × 3.8 cm (44 7/8 in. × 55 in. × 1 1/2 in.)
- H x W (unframed): 101 × 126.4 cm (39 3/4 × 49 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Exhibitions
