A painting of a man in uniform and a woman in a white robe with a child.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The painting shows a man in a brown uniform and hat standing on a green foreground, his left arm held over his waist, facing the viewer. Behind to the right is a female figure facing the man wearing a white robe, a blue head covering and tying a child to her back and looks over her left shoulder. In the center of the background is a tawny colored sharply peaked mountain, behind are dark brown mountains stretching to the left and right. White clouds float above the peaks. The sky is muted shades of orange with dark gray clouds edged in light gray.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.110
People
Mitchell Siporin, American (New York, New York 1910 - 1976 Newton, Massachusetts)
Title
Soldier and Camp Follower
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1936
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361713

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache on illustration board
Dimensions
irregular: 51.4 × 56.2 cm (20 1/4 × 22 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in green paint: Mitchell Siporin
  • (not assigned): on verso, in black ink and graphite: Soldier and Camp Follower, 1936

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mitchell Siporin, created 1936; Judith Siporin and Rachel Siporin, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Rachel and Judith Siporin in memory of their parents, Miriam and Mitchell Siporin
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.110
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2019 - 06/02/2021

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