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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H386
People
Brynjulf Strandenaes, Norwegian (c. 1880 - )
Edmund Cogswell Converse (1849 - 1921)
Title
Edmund Cogswell Converse (1849-1921)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1925
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304780

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.5 x 70.7 cm (36 x 27 13/16 in.)
framed: 115.6 x 95.3 x 14 cm (45 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: Stradenes/1925
  • label: wooded gilded plaque: "PORTRAIT OF/ EDMUND COGSWELL CONVERSE 1849-1921/ PRESENTED BY ALFRED JARETSKIU -81"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Alfred Jaretski, Sr., to be placed in the new Converse Laboratory, as a memorial to Edmund C. Converse, 1927
Object Number
H386
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. 43

Verification Level

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