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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.136
People
Henry Inman, American (Utica, NY 1801 - 1846 New York, NY)
Title
John Wesley Jarvis
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1822
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230337

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.2 x 63.8 cm (30 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 94.6 x 81.9 x 6.4 cm (37 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Ehrich Galleries, New York] sold; to Dr. Holmes Foster, sold; to Dr. Joseph P. Edison, New York, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop through [Knoedler Galleries, New York], c. 1942, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.136
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore Bolton, "Henry Inman, Portrait Painter", Creative Art (February 1933), vol. XII, no. 2, pp. 117-123
  • Theodore Bolton, "A Catalogue of the Paintings of Henry Inman", The Art Quarterly (New York, Autumn 1940), pp. 401-418, p. 407, no. 70
  • Theodore Bolton, "Henry Inman, An Account of his Life and Work", The Art Quarterly (New York, Autumn 1940), pp. 353-373
  • Portraits of Twelve American Artists by Themselves and Their Friends, exh. cat., Knoedler Galleries (New York, NY, 1942)
  • Harold E. Dickson, John Wesley Jarvis, American Painter, 1780-1840, with a checklist of his works, New York Historical Society (New York, NY, 1949), p. 249 and frontispiece
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
  • Ernest Rohdenburg, "The Misreported Quidor Court Case", The American Art Journal (Spring 1970), pp. 74-80, fig. 3
  • William H. Gerdts and Carrie Rebora, The Art of Henry Inman, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C., 1987), p. 145
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 286-87, cat. 233, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Oils and Miniatures of the Early Americans and their British Contemporaries, Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, Philadelphia, 06/15/1925 - 09/20/1925
  • Portraits of Twelve American Artists by Themselves and their Friends, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 03/01/1942 - 03/31/1942; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 04/01/1942 - 04/15/1942; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 05/01/1942 - 06/01/1942

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