H401: Bliss Perry (1860-1954)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H401

People

Charles Sydney Hopkinson, American (Cambridge, MA 1869 - 1962 Cambridge, MA)
Bliss Perry (1860-1954)

Title

Bliss Perry (1860-1954)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1931

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304786

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

114.3 x 97.1 cm (45 x 38 1/4 in.)
framed: 132.4 x 114.3 x 5.1 cm (52 1/8 x 45 x 2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: bottom center of the frame, brass, inscription: LENT BY/HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift by subscription to Harvard College, 1931

Object Number

H401

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@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. 109
• Joan Hopkinson Shurcliff and William A. Shurcliff, Portraits by Charles Hopkinson: An Informal Catalog, First Draft (Cambridge, MA (privately printed), 1988), p. 107

Exhibition History

• 30th Carnegie Institute International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 01/01/1931 - 12/31/1931
• Unidentified Exhibition, Montross Gallery, 1931, Montross Gallery, New York, 01/05/1931 - 01/17/1931
• Portraits by Charles Hopkinson, Williams College Museum of Art, 02/01/1938 - 02/28/1938
• Charles Hopkinson Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1954 - 05/30/1954

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