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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1997.24
People
Mitchell Siporin, American (New York, New York 1910 - 1976 Newton, Massachusetts)
Title
The Gallows: Spies, Engel, Fischer, and Parsons (Haymarket Series)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1934-1935
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293048

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on cream paper mounted to board
Dimensions
57.5 x 41 cm (22 5/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, on edge of platform: Siporin
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6687/8; crossed out: 4309/6
  • label: attached to verso, blue ballpoint ink: MITCHELL SIPORIN / THE GALLOWS / SPIES, ENGELS, FISCHER / and PARSONS / (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
1997.24
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Unidentified article], Left Front (May 1934 - June 1934), p. 11 [per Glenn]
  • "May Day, 1886: The Haymarket Struggle, Eight Drawings", New Masses (May 7, 1935), vol. 15, no. 6, repr. p. 13
  • Alan Calmer, Labor Agitator: The Story of Albert R. Parsons, International Publishers (New York, NY, 1937), repr. p. 121
  • Domenico Tarizzo, L'Anarchia: Storia dei movimenti libertari nel mondo, Mondadori (Milan, Italy, 1976), p. 169, repr.
  • Carl Belz, Mitchell Siporin: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, 1976), no. 11
  • 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.
  • Dave Roediger and Phyllis Boanes, ed., Haymarket Heritage: The Memoirs of Irving S. Abrams (Chicago, IL, 1989), ill. p. 58
  • Robert W. Glenn, The Haymarket Affair: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT, 1993), no. 1487

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, 04/18/2019 - 10/17/2019

Verification Level

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