Preliminary Figure Study for "Hell," Boston Public Library Mural Project
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856 - 1925
about 1910
Charcoal on laid (Michallet) paper
Sheet: 18 3/4 × 24 1/2 in. (47.6 × 62.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist
D.929.10.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, at lower left: S.4.30 [partially effaced]; at lower right: 4 [encircled]; on reverse twice, in graphite, at lower left and upper right: S.4.30. Watermark: MICHALLET/FRANCE
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Katherine Hart, Spring 2012
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Edward del Rosario, Winter 2013
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Edward del Rosario, Winter 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Summer 2014
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2020
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Lucy Mink Covello, Winter 2020
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Jerry Auten, Winter 2020
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Fall 2021
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Cocoran Gallery of Art, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-November 27, 1983 (not in cat.).
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Publication History
Charles M. Mount, "Some Works by Sargent at Dartmouth", Bulletin I, Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1966.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 52, no. 227.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 22, 26, 28, 41, 130, 260-261, ill. p. 131, no. 36.
Provenance
The artist; by descent to Emily Sargent and Violet Sargent (Mrs. Francis) Ormond [the artist's sisters], 1925; given to the present collection, 1929.
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