HNA29: William James (1842-1910)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

HNA29

People

Sarah Wyman Whitman, American (Baltimore, MD 1842 - 1904 Boston, MA)
William James (1842 - 1910)

Title

William James (1842-1910)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1903

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305285

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
framed: 94 x 82.6 x 10.2 cm (37 x 32 1/2 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: on book in painting, in artist's hand: EVER∙NOT∙QVITE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

William James, 1904; Henry James, his son.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gift of Henry James, son of William James, to Radcliffe College, 1923

Object Number

HNA29

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@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. 80
• Ignas K. Skrupskelis, ed., The Correspondence of William James, The University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA and London, England, 1994), p. 235
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 449, cat. 473, ill.

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