Pease Portraits in the Oberlin College Collection
	Archivist and College Friends Rescue Portraits Relating to Early Oberlin History		Ten portraits by Pease are in the collection of Oberlin College: James Dascomb (1860), James Fairchild (1860), Charles Finney (1860), John Keep (1859), Asa Mahan (1859), John Morgan (1859), Hiram Pease (two portraits, 1860 and 1869), Lydia Pease (1860), and James Armstrong Thome (dates unknown). Pease's life's work was to be a canvas titled The Game of Life, which he spent the last 15 years of his life painting. An allegorical piece about a young man on his own for the first time, facing all the challenges ahead, the unfinished canvas was exhibited in Oberlin after his death in May 1881. In 1949 Mrs. J. Lloyd Smith, cousin to Charles Jordan, offered the painting to Wolfgang Stechow, then director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. But further correspondence revealed that she had only a photograph of the painting, and that the original had most likely been destroyed.
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