Hervey Wetzel (1888-1918) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1975.63
People: Martin Mower, American (Lynn, MA 1870 - 1960 Vancouver, British Columbia)
Title: Hervey Wetzel (1888-1918)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1917
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/227890

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 83.5 x 66 cm (32 7/8 x 26 in.)
framed: 100 x 83.2 x 4.5 cm (39 3/8 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: From the artist to Hervey Wetzel (the subject), 1917.
To his cousin Mrs. Valentine at his death (?), 1918.
Mrs. Valentine to her son Joseph Valentine.
Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1975.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joseph W. Valentine
Accession Year: 1975
Object Number: 1975.63
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Benedict Cuddon, "A field pioneered by amateurs: The collecting and display of Islamic art in early twentieth-century Boston", Muqarnas, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2014), Vol. 30, Issue 1, p. 15, fig. 2, ill. (b/w)

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