H743: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H743
- People
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Patricia Watwood, American (St. Louis, MO born 1971)
Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
- Title
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 2001
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/148373
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 119.7 x 96.7 cm (47 1/8 x 38 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l. monogram
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dudley and Georgene Herschbach
- Copyright
- © Patricia Watwood
- Object Number
- H743
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- "Breaking the Portrait Glass Ceiling", Science Magazine, ed. Constance Holden (February 15, 2002), vol. 295, 1227., p. 1227, ill.
- "Portrait of a Pioneer", Harvard Magazine (2002), March-April 2002, 67., ill. p. 67.
- Alec Solomita, "The Big Picture, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, First Lady", Harvard University Gazette (February 14, 2002), p. 5, reprod. in b&w, 5.
- John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, Harvard A to Z, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2004), p. 277
- Mabel Armstrong, Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars (Marcola, Oregon, 2007)
Verification Level
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