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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H248
People
Charles Sydney Hopkinson, American (Cambridge, MA 1869 - 1962 Cambridge, MA)
Professor Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)
Title
Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1921
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299544

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 100 x 128 cm (39 3/8 x 50 3/8 in.)
framed: 119.4 x 147.3 x 7.6 cm (47 x 58 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Charles Hopkinson 1921

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard Memorial Society to the University
Object Number
H248
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 101, ill. p. 102
  • Joan Hopkinson Shurcliff and William A. Shurcliff, Portraits by Charles Hopkinson: An Informal Catalog, First Draft (Cambridge, MA (privately printed), 1988), p. 102
  • Linda Dowling, Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, University Press of New England (Hanover and London, 2007), cover
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 15, fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Memorabilia by Members, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 04/23/1929 - 07/15/1929
  • Charles Hopkinson Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1954 - 05/30/1954

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