H536: Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H536
- People
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Wyndham Lewis, British (born at sea, near Amherst, Nova Scotia 1882 - 1957 London, England)
Thomas Stearns Eliot, British (St. Louis, MO 1888 - 1965 London)
- Title
- Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1938
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304924
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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76.8 x 50.8 cm (30 1/4 x 20 in.)
frame: 90.5 x 65.4 cm (35 5/8 x 25 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: WYNDHAM LEWIS 1938
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mrs. Stanley B. Resor, gift; to Eliot House, Harvard University, c. 1950
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Stanley B. Resor for Eliot House
- Copyright
- © Wyndham Lewis / Bridgeman Images
- Object Number
- H536
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- H. W. Janson, History of Art [1st ed.], Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1962)
- Allen Tate, ed., T. S. Eliot, University of the South (Sewanee, TN, 1966), reproduced on dust jacket
- Walter Michel, Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1971), p. 455
- Francis Russell, "The Return of T.S. Eliot", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, September 1988 - October 1988), p. 53
- The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920's and 30's, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (London, England, 1994)
- Dual Muse: The Writer As Artist, the Artist As Writer, exh. cat., John Benjamins (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1997)
Exhibition History
- Unidentified Exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago, 1972, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 11/15/1971 - 01/01/1972
- Writers as Artists, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 11/15/1971 - 01/01/1972
- The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 30s, National Portrait Gallery, London, 10/14/1994 - 01/22/1995
Verification Level
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