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Portrait of Mark Twain  1912

by John White Alexander

Using the pen name Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens had become one of this country's favorite satiric writers by the early 1870s, routinely making light of everyday human foibles. But it was the publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) that assured him a lasting place in American letters. Inspired in part by his own boyhood...
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192.4 x 92.1 x 3.8cm (75 3/4 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2")
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
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Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons