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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H632
People
Mary McKechnie, American (Girard, KS born 1887)
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
Title
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1929
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304951

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 89.6 x 74.3 cm (35 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.)
framed: 106.7 x 119.4 x 6 cm (42 x 47 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: M. McKechnie / 29
  • label: brass plaque below "VACHEL LINDSAY/ Poet/ By Mary McKechnie"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Vachel Lindsay, owner-sitter.
To the artist, Mary McKechnie; returned from Vachel Lindsay.
Sold to Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Hart, Cambridge, MA, 1955.
Their gift to Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1970.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Professor and Mrs. Henry M. Hart Jr. to the University, 1970
Object Number
H632
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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