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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H385
People
Ernest Ludvig Ipsen, American (Malden, MA 1869 - 1951 Miami, FL)
William Fiske Whitney (1850 - 1912)
Title
William Fiske Whitney (1850-1912)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1927
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304749

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
127.2 x 101.8 cm (50 1/16 x 40 1/16 in.)
framed: 142.2 x 116.8 x 5.1 cm (56 x 46 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.l.: E.L.Ipsen/1927
  • (not assigned): label on base reads: "William Fiske Whitney, A.B., M.D./Curator of the Warren Museum/1879-1921/He served the Medical School and his fellow men with gentleness, kindness and wisdom."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of friends of Dr. Whitney to the Warren Museum, Harvard Medical School, 1927
Object Number
H385
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. 147

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