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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.314
People
Mitchell Siporin, American (New York, New York 1910 - 1976 Newton, Massachusetts)
Title
Violence at the Monument (Haymarket Series)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1934-1935
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98893

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and graphite on cream board
Dimensions
57.1 x 39.6 cm (22 1/2 x 15 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Siporin
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6687/8
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 4309/6 [crossed out]
  • inscription: verso, bottom, graphite: VIOLENCE AT THE / MONUMENT (HAY MARKET SERIES)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Judith and Rachel Siporin in honor of Miriam Siporin
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.314
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Reproduction only], [reproduction], Daily Worker, (New York, NY, April 28, 1934)., p. 15, repr. (caption: "In the name of the people of Illinois, I command Peace!")
  • Sheldon Cheney, Expressionism in Art, Liveright Publishing Corporation (New York, NY, 1934), repr. p. 368 (title: "Haymarket 1934")
  • "May Day, 1886: The Haymarket Struggle, Eight Drawings", New Masses (May 7, 1935), vol. 15, no. 6, repr. p. 13 (title: "The Haymarket, 1935")
  • Alan Calmer, Labor Agitator: The Story of Albert R. Parsons, International Publishers (New York, NY, 1937), repr. p. 125 (title: Haymarket Today")
  • Carl Belz, Mitchell Siporin: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, 1976), no. 12
  • Dave Roediger and Phyllis Boanes, ed., Haymarket Heritage: The Memoirs of Irving S. Abrams (Chicago, IL, 1989), p. 63
  • Robert W. Glenn, The Haymarket Affair: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT, 1993), no. 1490

Exhibition History

  • Mitchell Siporin: A Retrospective, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 05/11/1976 - 06/30/1976
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/13/2016 - 10/05/2016

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