Harvard Art Museums > L109: Entering the War Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Entering the War (John Singer Sargent) , L109,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/305208. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number L109 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Entering the War Other Titles Former Title: Coming of the Americans Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1922 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/305208 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 447 x 186.7 cm (176 x 73 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.l.: JOHN S. SARGENT © Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard University Portrait Collection, Anonymous gift to the University Object Number L109 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History M.F. B., "Harvard's Heroic War Dead Immortalized by John Singer Sargent", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, November 3, 1922), p. 20, p. 20, repr. Frederick W. Coburn, "In the World of Art", Boston Sunday Herald (Boston, MA, November 5, 1922) George Harold Edgell, "Mr. Sargent's Paintings in the Widener Library", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, November 9, 1922), XXV, no. 7, pp. 171-173, p. 171, ill. p. 173 Margaret E. Gilman, "The Sargent Panels in the Widener Library", The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (Cambridge, MA, December 1922), vol. 31, no 122, pp. 215-216, pp. 215-216 "The Sargent War Panels", Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, November 9, 1922), XXV, no. 7, p. 161, p. 161 Sidney Woodward, "Unveil Sargent's Panels at Harvard", American Art News (November 11, 1922), vol. XXI, p. 5, p. 5 "Sargent Mural in Widener is Storm Center of Recent Criticism by Pach", The Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, MA, December 4, 1928), pp. 3-4, pp. 3-4, ill. Walter Pach, Ananias; or, The False Artist, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY and London, England, 1928), pp. 133-142, repr. facing p. 134 "Murals", Art News (February 9, 1929), vol. XXVII, no. 19, p. 12 "Sargent Murals Well Received at First Appearance", The Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, MA, June 8, 1929), p. 1 "The Writing on the Wall", The Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, MA, May 31, 1929), vol. XCV, #84, p. 2 John Walker III, "To the Editor of the Crimson", The Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, MA, June 7, 1929), vol. XCV, no. 90, p. 5, p. 2 Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 205 Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Harper & Row (New York, NY and London, England, 1970), p. 94 Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), pp. 203-209, repr. Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1994), p. 121 Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 48-50, repr.in b/w fig. 47 Jane Dini, "The Art of Selling War: Sargent's World War I Murals for Harvard University", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 67-84, p. 67, fig. 2 Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), pp. 219-221, fig. 90, repr. Bruce Robertson, ed., Sargent and Italy, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Princeton University Press (Los Angeles, CA and Princeton, NJ, 2002), p. 184 Matthew Battles, Widener: Biography of a Library, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2004), pp. 63-67, repr. in color Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), pp. 343-345, cat. 363, ill. p. 345 Angela Chang, Glenn Gates, Teri Hensick, Philip Klausmeyer, Miriam Stewart, Kate Olivier, Ruxandra Stoicescu, and Carol Troyen, John Singer Sargent's 'Triumph of Religion' at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration, ed. Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Kate Smith, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (Cambridge/New Haven and London, 2009), p. 28, fig. 1.8 Sally Webster, "The Art of the Americas Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" [review], Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2011), 10, issue 2 [electronic journal] Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), pp. 28-29, 50, 111, fig. 16 Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), v Related Articles Artist Letters: John Singer Sargent July 30, 2013 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu