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A metal plate with a relief carving of a man reading.

A green-gold colored rectangular metal plate with rounded corners. A man is depicted in light relief. He has very short hair and receding hairline, and a full short beard. He is seen from the side, looking down at a book that he holds open at chest level. He is arranged so that his shoulder, upper arm, elbow, and forearm line up with the right and bottom edges of the plate. He wears a suit and tie. There are symbols or letters etched in two lines at his shoulder in the negative space, but they cannot be clearly read.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1953.58
People
Cora Overland, American (Boston, MA born 1882)
Title
George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1936
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229029

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Painted plaster plaque
Technique
Relief
Dimensions
55.9 x 42.6 x 1.3 cm (22 x 16 3/4 x 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Cora Overland Sculptor
  • inscription: left center: George Lyman Kittredge MCMXXXVI

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Cora B. Overland, Cast, 1936, to daughter (?) Doris Overland.
Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1953.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Doris Overland
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
1953.58
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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