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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1997.23
People
Mitchell Siporin, American (New York, New York 1910 - 1976 Newton, Massachusetts)
Title
In the Name of the State of Illinois, I command you to disperse (Haymarket Series)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1934-1935
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287213

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on cream board
Dimensions
59.3 x 40.6 cm (23 3/8 x 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, u.l.: Siporin
  • inscription: on banner in image, black ink, in artist's hand: Our Civiliza[tion] / The Bullet / and Policeman's / Club!
  • inscription: verso, bottom, graphite: In the name of the State of Illinois, / I command you to disperse (Haymarket series)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Miriam, Judith, and Rachel Siporin, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miriam, Rachel, and Judith Siporin
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
1997.23
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Carl Belz, Mitchell Siporin: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, 1976), no. 5
  • Paul Avrich, ed., The First Mayday: Haymarket Speeches 1895-1910 by Voltairine de Cleyre, Cienfuegos Press and Libertarian Book Club & Soil of Liberty (Sandy, Orkney, Scotland and New York, 1980), repr.
  • Robert W. Glenn, The Haymarket Affair: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT, 1993), no. 1483 ["The Cops"?]

Exhibition History

  • Mitchell Siporin: A Retrospective, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 05/11/1976 - 06/30/1976
  • Mitchell Siporin: The Early Years 1930-1950, Babcock Galleries, New York, 03/10/1990 - 04/03/1990
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/29/2015

Verification Level

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