Victor Moore as Moonface Martin in "Anything Goes"

Sitter Victor Moore American
ca. 1934
Not on view
This caricature of the actor, comedian and writer Victor Moore shows him dressed as a priest holding a shotgun. In 1934 he played Moonface Martin (Public Enemy no. 13 who sails on the S.S. American disguished as a priest) in Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" on Broadway,.

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  • Title: Victor Moore as Moonface Martin in "Anything Goes"
  • Artist: Alfred J. Frueh (American, Lima, Ohio 1880–1968 Sharon, Connecticut)
  • Sitter: Victor Moore (American, 1876–1962)
  • Date: ca. 1934
  • Medium: Ink and wash, heightened with white over graphite
  • Dimensions: sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (30.1 x 24.5 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Alfred Ten Eyck Gardner, 1963
  • Object Number: 63.689.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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