- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1997.26
- People
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Mitchell Siporin, American (New York, New York 1910 - 1976 Newton, Massachusetts)
- Title
- Dedication of a Monument to Mathias J. Degan (Haymarket Series)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1934-1935
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287214
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink over graphite on cream board
- Dimensions
- 57.3 x 40 cm (22 9/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, l.r.: Siporin
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6687/8; crossed out: 4309/6
- inscription: verso, bottom, graphite: Dedication of Monument / to Matthias J. Degan / (Haymarket Series)
- Provenance
- Miriam, Judith, and Rachel Siporin, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miriam, Rachel, and Judith Siporin
- Accession Year
- 1997
- Object Number
- 1997.26
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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"May Day, 1886: The Haymarket Struggle, Eight Drawings", New Masses (May 7, 1935), vol. 15, no. 6, repr. p. 13
Carl Belz, Mitchell Siporin: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, 1976), no. 7
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. 1489
- Exhibition History
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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, 10/18/2018 - 04/18/2019
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