Man of Unidentified Tribe | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2023.193
People: Henry Inman, American (Utica, NY 1801 - 1846 New York, NY)
Title: Man of Unidentified Tribe
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1832-1834
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/333004

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76.8 x 63.5 cm (30 1/4 x 25 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Mark Hollingsworth and Edmund I. Tileston (Hollingsworth and Tileston Paper Company); to Edmund P. Tileston and Amor Hollingsworth; gift of their heirs to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1882, transfer; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, gift of the heirs of E. P. Tileston and Amor Hollingsworth, 1882
Accession Year: 2023
Object Number: 2023.193
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

A Festival of Western American Art at Hirschl and Adler, October 12-November 17, 1984, auct. cat., Hirschl & Adler Galleries (New York, 1984)
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 29, 291-92, cat. 241, ill.

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