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Comrades, (painting). Artist:  Smith, Howard Everett, 1885-1970, painter. Title:  Comrades, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1911. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  24 x 30 in. Inscription:  (Lower left:) Howard E. Smith (On back, in pencil:) Howard E. Smith 30 Ipswich St Boston Ma (On back, in pencil:) Comrades signed Description:  Interior scene of an elderly 81 year old Reuben Oak sick in bed with his wife Patience Oak seated beside him on Memorial Day in 1909. Subject:  Literature -- Phelps -- Comrades Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Architecture interior -- Domestic -- Bedroom Figure group -- Elderly Object Type:  Painting Illustration Owner:  McGrath, Richard J., 596 Meriden-Waterbury Road, Southington, Connecticut 06489 Exhibitions:  National Academy of Design Ninety Sixth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1921. Remarks:  On the back of the painting there is a pencil notation with the artist's name and his Fenway Studios address in Boston. Attached to the stretcher is a National Academy of Design exhibition label. The painting was awarded the Joseph S. Isidor Gold Medal at the National Academy of Design's Ninety Sixth Annual Exhibition in 1921. The Isidor Medal was established in 1907 for achievement in figure painting and was awarded to National Academy of Design members. The painting sold at the NAD's Ninety Sixth Annual Exhibition in 1921. It was one of three paintings created as illustrations for Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's' book "Comrades" published in 1911 by Harper and Brothers, though the illustrations were in black and white. IAP files contain additional research about the painting and how it illustrates the plot of "Comrades." IAP files also contain an excerpt transcribed from New York Times, March 5, 1921 in a review of the Ninety Sixth Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. References:  McGrath, Richard J., 2019. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 9D870050   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 9D870050 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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