H515.A: Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H515.A

People

Charles Sydney Hopkinson, American (Cambridge, MA 1869 - 1962 Cambridge, MA)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, American (1856-1943)

Title

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1930

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/300026

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

100.7 x 90.6 cm (39 5/8 x 35 11/16 in.)
framed: 116.2 x 106.1 x 8.3 cm (45 3/4 x 41 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.l.: Hopkinson 1930
• (not assigned): Small paper label with with number "10" on front of frame, l.r.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1943

Object Number

H515.A

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 90
• Joan Hopkinson Shurcliff and William A. Shurcliff, Portraits by Charles Hopkinson: An Informal Catalog, First Draft (Cambridge, MA (privately printed), 1988), p. 93
• Diana L. Eck, Hanging Around Lowell House: The Portraits of Lowell House, brochure (Cambridge, MA, 2012), pp. 6-7, ill.

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