H437: John Silas Reed (1887-1920)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H437
- People
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Robert Hallowell, American (Denver, CO 1886 - 1939 Staten Island, NY)
John Silas Reed (1887 - 1920)
- Title
- John Silas Reed (1887-1920)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1935
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304484
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on glass
- Dimensions
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77.5 x 77.5 cm (30 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.)
framed: 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm (36 x 36 x 1 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: R. Hallowell, / 1935
- inscription:
- label: below painting: gilded wood plaque "JOHN REED (1887-1920)/ HARVARD 1910/ PAINTED BY HIS CLASSMATE/ ROBERT HALLOWELL/ GIFT OF HARVARD ALUMNI/ JOHN REED COMMITTEE IN 1935".
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard Alumni John Reed Committee to the University, 1935
- Object Number
- H437
- 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. 114
- Richard O'Connor and Dale Walker, The Lost Revolutionary, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. (New York, NY, 1967), cover
- Nancy Jackson, "John Reed's Harvard", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, 1982), p. 47
Verification Level
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