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 laid (Ingres) paper
Sheet: 18 15/16 × 24 5/8 in. (48.1 × 62.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist
D.929.10.7
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Exhibition History
19th Century American Drawings, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 27-October 31, 1976.
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.
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.
The Nude, and exhibition in conjunction with Art 1, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 12-November 25, 1979.
Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 21, 1975.
Publication History
Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 24-25.
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. 28, 245, ill. p. 29, fig. 25.
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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