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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H536
People
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
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
  • 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
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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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