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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H770
People
Helen Bigelow Merriman, American (Boston, MA 1844 - 1933 Intervale, NH)
Sarah Wyman Whitman, American (Baltimore, MD 1842 - 1904 Boston, MA)
Title
Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1909-1910
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/101775

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 100.3 x 71.1 cm (39 1/2 x 28 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gift of Helen Merriman to the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1909-10
Object Number
H770
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Erica E. Hirshler, A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, MA, 2001), pp. 31, 33, 39, ill.opp. p. 31
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 222, cat. 172, ill.

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