Study for a Mural in the Boston Public Library or the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856 - 1925
about 1890-1924
Charcoal on wove (O.W.P. & A.C.L.) paper
Sheet: 16 11/16 × 21 1/8 in. (42.4 × 53.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist
D.929.10.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
not signed.
Course History
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Edward del Rosario, Winter 2013
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Edward del Rosario, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 12, Emmett and Cadmus: Looking At/For the Homoerotic Power Struggle, Joseph Ackley, Class of 2003, Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 5-May 4, 2003.
John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-November 27, 1983.
Publication History
Jane Dini, The Widener Library Murals at Harvard University, The Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1996/1997
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, ill. p. 245.
Provenance
The artist; by descent to Emily Sargent and Violet Sargent Ormond (Mrs. Francis) [the artist's sisters], 1925; given to the present collection, 1929.
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