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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H437
People
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
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
  • 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
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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

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