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    		• Dunn, Harvey,
     
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    		• Figure male
     
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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• State of Being -- Death
     
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    		• Architecture exterior -- Military
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    The Valedictorian, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Dunn, Harvey, 1884-1952, painter.
    Title: 
    The Valedictorian, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Armistice, (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1920.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 37.5 x 33.25 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Lower right:) Harvey / Dunn signed
    Description: 
    Scene of a fallen soldier on the battlefield; German World War I-style helmet in foreground. Next to fallen soldier is a rifle, barrel end in the ground, with a doughboy helmet on top.
    Subject: 
    Figure male
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    State of Being -- Death
    Architecture exterior -- Military -- Battlefield
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Norwich University, Sullivan Museum and History Center, 158 Harmon Drive, Northfield, Vermont 05663
    Remarks: 
    Donated to Norwich University by Leonard H. Nason (NU 1920) and the Class of 1920 in memory of Harold S. Metcalf, Jean Seaver, and Moses Taylor, Jr. in 1940. These three men died during World War I and were members of the Norwich University Class of 1920. Nason and Dunn worked together frequently for the magazine American Legion Monthly, for which this painting was a cover image in November 1929.
    References: 
    Sullivan Museum and History Center, 2014.
    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 53790001
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