H361: George Santayana (1863-1952)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H361

People

Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Title

George Santayana (1863-1952)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1909

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304757

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

107.4 x 66.5 cm (42 5/16 x 26 3/16 in.)
framed: 129.5 x 88.9 x 12.7 cm (51 x 35 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: Denman W. Ross / July 1909

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the artist, 1922; transferred from the Fogg Art Museum to the Harvard Portrait Collection.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross, 1922; transferred from the Fogg Museum

Object Number

H361

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@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. 120, ill. p. 121
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 290-291, cat. 303, ill. p. 291
• Marie Frank, Denman Ross and American Design Theory, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, 2011), pp. 114-115, repr. p. 117 as fig. 3.6

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