H140: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H140

People

John White Alexander, American (Allegheny City, PA 1856 - 1915 New York, NY)
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

Title

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1883

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310986

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

127.6 x 115.6 cm (50 1/4 x 45 1/2 in.)
framed: 165.1 x 151.1 x 19.1 cm (65 x 59 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: J. W. Alexander, Jan. 1883

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned in 1882 by students of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of students of Dr. Holmes to Harvard College for the Medical School, 1883

Object Number

H140

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Addresses and Exercises at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Medical School of Harvard University, October 17, 1883, John Wilson and Son (Cambridge, MA, 1883), pp. 41-42
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 23
• Catalogue of Paintings: John White Alexander Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, 1916), p. 37
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 75-76
• Sarah J. Moore, "John White Alexander (1856-1915): In Search of the Decorative" (1992), City University of New York, p. 61, fig. 5
• 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. 34, cat. 1, ill.

Exhibition History

• John White Alexander Memorial Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, 03/01/1916 - 03/31/1916

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