An oil painting on glass in black and white with red and green.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The painting shows a black circle on a white background. Slightly off-center in a black circle sits a white rounded shape, the top edge is flat, above it are two diagonal white bars of equal length. On the lower left edge of the circle is a five-point white star, between the star and the central shape is a thin green line with three evenly spaced green ovals branching from it. On the lower right edge of the black is a red heart with the letter P on top.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.31
People
Rebecca Salsbury Strand James, American (1891 - 1968)
Title
Paul
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1934
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226428

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1310, Modern and Contemporary Art, Surrealism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on glass
Dimensions
24.8 x 19.7 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
framed: 27.4 x 22.5 x 1.4 cm (10 13/16 x 8 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed upper left in pencil: 27-RSS-1. Inscribed upper left in pencil: SOR #2361. Inscribed upper center in ink: Paul / Taos 1934 / Rebecca Salsbury James. (Inscriptions listed above area on brown backing paper on verso of work.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, Colorado. [Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico]; sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Isabella Grandin Bequest Fund
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.31
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/29/2015
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/18/2019 - 01/01/2050

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