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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.155
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "Gog and Magog," for the Boston Public Library
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1895 - 1916
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230721

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas affixed to board
Dimensions
84.1 x 168.9 cm (33 1/8 x 66 1/2 in.)
framed: 86.7 x 171.8 x 3.8 cm (34 1/8 x 67 5/8 x 1 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sister, Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; her gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.155
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 622
  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), cat. no. 76, p. 71
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), repr. fig. 188
  • Kate Olivier, "John Singer Sargent's Use of Scale Models for his 'Triumph of Religion' Murals (1890-1919) at the Boston Public Library", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 39-51, p. 45, fig. 13
  • Christine Temin, "Sargent's Expansive 'Studio' at the Fogg", The Boston Globe (Boston, MA, June 22, 1999), ill. p. E3
  • Ruxandra Stoicescu, "Underdrawings and Compositional Changes on John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion Murals at the Boston Public Library" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-31 passim
  • 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), p.316, cat. 336, ill.
  • 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. 149, fig. 6.43

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926
  • Sargent's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/03/1956 - 02/07/1956
  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2008 - 11/16/2008
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/16/2009 - 11/08/2009

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