1997.22: August Spies Speaking from a Wagon (Haymarket Series)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1997.22
- People
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Mitchell Siporin, American (New York, New York 1910 - 1976 Newton, Massachusetts)
- Title
- August Spies Speaking from a Wagon (Haymarket Series)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1934-1935
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287656
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink over graphite on cream board
- Dimensions
- 59.8 x 43 cm (23 9/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, l.l.: Siporin
- inscription: on banner in image, black ink, in artist's hand: 15 Section / Jung's haltfast
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6687/8
- inscription: verso, bottom, graphite: August Spies Speaking from a Wagon / (Haymarket Series) / August
- inscription: black ink, lower left: M. Siporin
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
- 1997.22
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- "May Day, 1886: The Haymarket Struggle, Eight Drawings", New Masses (May 7, 1935), vol. 15, no. 6, repr. p. 12
- Alan Calmer, Labor Agitator: The Story of Albert R. Parsons, International Publishers (New York, NY, 1937), repr. p. 93
- Carl Belz, Mitchell Siporin: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, 1976), no. 2
- 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. 1482
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
Verification Level
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