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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H111
People
Ellen Emmet Rand, American (San Francisco, CA 1876 - 1941 Salisbury, CT)
William James (1842 - 1910)
Title
William James (1842-1910)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1910
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304608

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
138 x 106.1 cm (54 5/16 x 41 3/4 in.)
framed: 162.6 x 127 x 8.9 cm (64 x 50 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Ellen Emmet / 1910.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by the Department of Philosophy for the faculty room, 1910.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Commissioned by the Department of Philosophy for the faculty room, 1910
Object Number
H111
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. 80, ill. p. 81
  • Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1948), frontispiece
  • Charles Nagel and Oscar Handlin, This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits, exh. cat., ed. J. Benjamin Townsend, National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC, 1968), ill. p. 127
  • Saul Rosenzweig, Freud, Jung, and Hall the King-maker: the historic expedition to America, Rana House (St. Louis, MO, 1992)
  • Ignas K. Skrupskelis, ed., The Correspondence of William James, The University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA and London, England, 1994), pp. 406, 408

Exhibition History

  • This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 09/28/1968 - 12/31/1968
  • The Emmets: A Family of Women Painters, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 08/06/1982 - 09/26/1982; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, 10/10/1982 - 12/05/1982

Verification Level

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