H532: Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H532

People

Charles Sydney Hopkinson, American (Cambridge, MA 1869 - 1962 Cambridge, MA)
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)

Title

Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1909

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304923

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 118.7 x 109 cm (46 3/4 x 42 15/16 in.)
framed: 144.8 x 134.9 x 12.7 cm (57 x 53 1/8 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Charles/Hopkinson/1909
• label: on wall, English: "Charles William Eliot/President of the University 1869-1909/He devoted these buildings to the teaching of/the medical arts and to the pursuit of the/biological and medical sciences." [This is a label, all in caps, that hangs near the painting.]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Dane

Object Number

H532

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Joan Hopkinson Shurcliff and William A. Shurcliff, Portraits by Charles Hopkinson: An Informal Catalog, First Draft (Cambridge, MA (privately printed), 1988), p. 33
• John B. Mulliken, "The Crimson Birthmark on a Harvard President", Harvard Medical Journal (Cambridge, MA, 1989), p. 49

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