Artist:                     Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

Title:                       “Neal A. Prince”

Date:                       January 10, 1951

Medium:                Drawing

Materials:              Pencil on red construction paper

Markings:              Signed on the lower right corner, “Burt Witman”¹

Dimensions:          9” x 12”

Framed:                  No

Inventory No.:      NAPT.1999.000490

Provenance:          Neal Adair Prince Trust

Neal A. Prince

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.  

Footnote¹:             This pencil sketch of Neal A. Prince was completed by Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. (Burt), on January 10^th, 1951, as a token of the evening at the time. Mr. Prince was posing for Burt as they both were listening to various L.P. Records and entertained themselves with their choice of Scotch and Soda’s cocktails. Burt would often try to sketch Mr. Prince when they played L.P. Records during many number of late evenings. Burt signed the sketch as “Burt Whitman”, to reflect his humor and silliness on January 10^th, 1951 as Mr. Prince was working on a Walt Whitman script, which at the time, Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill was celebrating Mr. Prince’s birthday. And therefore, Mr. Prince has remained to retain this work of art after 60 years and still – considers this one of his most important pieces within this collection.