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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H439
People
Emil Pollak-Ottendorff, American (1900 - 2000)
Otto Knut Olof Folin (1867 - 1934)
Frame by Walfred Thulin (1878 - 1949)
Title
Otto Knut Olof Folin (1867-1934)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1934
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304807

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
87.6 x 66.9 cm (34 1/2 x 26 5/16 in.)
framed: 105.4 x 85.1 x 9.5 cm (41 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Emil Pollak-Ottendorff
  • label: All caps: "Dr. Otto Knut Olof FOUN 1867-1934/ By E. Pollak-Ottendorff 1934/ Gift of Associates/ HAMILTON KUHN PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 1909-1934"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the associates of Dr. Folin to the Harvard Medical School, 1934
Object Number
H439
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. 57

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