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Harley Orrin Staggers

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Date

1976

Artist

Attributed to Irving Resnikoff

Maker

Studio of CJ Fox

Dimensions

40 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (101.9 x 76.5 cm) Framed: 47 3/8 x 37 3/8 in. (120.3 x 94.9 cm)

Accession Number

2002.016.004

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

The artist who painted Chairman Staggers’ portrait signed someone else’s name on the canvas. As court documents later show, Irving Resnikoff, a New York artist whose commissions were solicited by entrepreneur Leo Fox, painted many works signed with “Charles J. Fox,” the name under which Leo fox operated. Resnikoff trained in St. Petersburg before emigrating from Russia in 1923. He worked from photographs and never met Staggers, Chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, or the other government and business figures he painted.

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