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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H675
People
Ellen Emmet Rand, American (San Francisco, CA 1876 - 1941 Salisbury, CT)
William James (1842 - 1910)
Title
William James (1842-1910)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1903-1905
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Connecticut
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305069

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
100 x 75 cm (39 3/8 x 29 1/2 in.)
framed: 123.8 x 98.4 x 8.3 cm (48 3/4 x 38 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: 2 plaques below painting, plexiglas: left: "WILLIAM JAMES 1842-1910 BY ELLEN EMMET RAND"
    right: "LENT BY MR. AND MRS. JOHN S.R. JAMES"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. John S. R. James, Jr. to the University, 1983
Object Number
H675
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ignas K. Skrupskelis, ed., The Correspondence of William James, The University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA and London, England, 1994), p.246

Exhibition History

  • The Emmets: A Family of Women Painters, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 08/06/1982 - 09/26/1982; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, 10/10/1982 - 12/05/1982
  • The Business of Bodies: Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) and the Persuasion of Portraiture, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/25/2018 - 03/10/2019

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