Harvard Art Museums > 1969.185: Lake O'Hara Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Lake O'Hara (John Singer Sargent) , 1969.185,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 03, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299932. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1969.185 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Lake O'Hara Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1916 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299932 Physical Descriptions Medium Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper Dimensions 40 x 53 cm (15 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: black ink, l.l.: John S. Sargent inscription: l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: To Edward W. Forbes / John S. Sargent inscription: u.r. of verso, graphite: C20576 exhibition label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed in red ink and inscribed in graphite and pen and black ink: C. M. A. [Cleveland Museum of Art] / 2168.17 / B-5 exhibition label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed in black ink and inscribed in pen and brown ink: Minneapolis / Institute of Arts / L18.77 exhibition label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed and typed in black ink and inscribed in pen and black ink: The Copley Society of Boston/ Exhibition of American Water Colors / Paris 1923 / Please fill in and stick on the back of picture / Title: Lake O'Hara / Artist: John Singer Sargent / Owner: Edward W. Forbes, Director, Fogg Art Museum / Address: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. / Signed: [inscribed in pen and black ink] Paul J. Sachs, asst. curator inscription: In pen and black ink on cardboard backing board (now in curatorial file), partially cut off: [?] by Edward W. For[bes] / Gerry's La[nding] / Cambri[dge] / M[ass] exhibition label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed and typed in black ink and inscribed in pen and black ink: Please fill in and stick on back of picture / Title: Lake O'Hara / Name and address of owner: Edward W. Forbes, Gerry's Landing, Cambridge, Mass. / Where to be returned to: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. / Insurance Value: $2000 / Signed: [in pen and black ink] Margaret E. Gilman / Secretary, Fogg Art Museum label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed and typed in black ink and inscribed in pen and black ink: Fogg Art Museum / Loan / 338.1930 label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed and typed in black ink and inscribed in pen and black ink: Fogg Art Museum / Loan / 628.28 label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed and typed in black ink: Fogg Art Museum / Artist: John Singer Sargent / Subject: Lake O'Hara / No. 338.1930 / Lent-E. W. Forbes, Esq. gallery label: back of frame (now in curatorial file), printed and typed in black ink and inscribed in graphite: No. C.20576 / Doll & Richards. / Incorporated / 71 Newbury St. / Boston. Provenance Recorded Ownership History John Singer Sargent, gift [1]; to Edward W. Forbes, Cambridge, MA, c. 1916, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969 [1] See Forbes's "History of the Fogg Art Museum," where he writes, "I have already spoken of our purchase of Sargent's 'Lake O'Hara.' Later he gave me his watercolor sketch of the same subject" (p. 147). Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes Accession Year 1969 Object Number 1969.185 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 Copley Society, Copley Society Catalogue of Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1921), cat. no. 50 A Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1925), no. 112 William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent, His Life and Work, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1925), pp. 71, 282 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent (Boston, 1926), no. 112 William Howe Downes, "American Painters of Mountains", The American Magazine of Art (October 1932), vol. XXV, no. 4, pp. 193-202, ill. p. 201 Edward Waldo Forbes, History of the Fogg Art Museum, Unpublished (1956), p. 147, vol. I Acquisitions, 1969-1970, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), p. 117 Karen Wilkin, Art in Alberta: Paul Kane to the Present, exh. cat., Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1973), ill. n.p. Rebecca W. Karo, "Ah Wilderness! Sargent in the Rockies, 1916", Fenway Court; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA, 1977), pp. 21-29, pp. 27-29 John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), no. 60, repr. Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), p. 33, fig. 41 Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. p. 149 (color) 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), p. 349-350, under no. 331 John Esten, Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors, Universe Press (New York, NY, 2000), repr. in color p. 65 Lisa Christensen, The Lake O'Hara Art of J.E.H. MacDonald and Hiker's Guide, Fifth House (Calgary, 2003), p. 12, repr. p. 13 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. 337-339, cat. 355, ill. p. 338 Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Expanding Horizons: American and Canadian Painting and Photography, 1860-1918, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 2009), p. 186, repr. p. 185 as fig. 3 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), no. 1798, repr. p. 150, p. 306 Exhibition History Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent: An Exhibition of Water Colors, Carnegie Institute, 11/01/1917 - 11/27/1917; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 11/30/1917 - 12/31/1917; Detroit Institute of Arts, 02/02/1918 - 02/28/1918; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 03/07/1918 - 04/01/1918; Milwaukee Art Institute, 04/07/1918 - 04/27/1918; City Art Museum of St. Louis, 05/05/1918 - 05/28/1918; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 06/04/1918 - 07/01/1918 Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, Copley Society of Boston, 03/05/1921 - 03/22/1921 Thirty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 11/03/1921 - 12/11/1921 Exposition d'Art Américain John S. Sargent, R. A., Dodge MacKnight, Winslow Homer, Paul Manship, Association Franco-Américaine d'Expositions, Paris, 05/18/1923 - 06/25/1923 Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Crandall Free Library, Glens Falls, 03/01/1933 - 03/31/1933 Loan Exhibition of Sargent Water Colors, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1933 - 06/30/1933 Unidentified Exhibition, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1933, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now Nelson-Atkins), Kansas City, 12/01/1933 - 03/31/1934 Unidentified Exhibition, Lawrence College, 1935, Lawrence University, Appleton, 03/01/1935 - 04/30/1935 Unidentified Exhibition, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1935, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, 10/14/1935 - 11/16/1935 Unidentified Exhibition, Symphony Hall, 1928, Symphony Hall, Boston, 11/01/1938 - 12/31/1938 Unidentified Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, 1940, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940 Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971 Gallery's Fiftieth Anniversary, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, 04/06/1973 - 08/15/1973; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 07/01/1973 - 08/15/1973 Art in Alberta: Paul Kane to the Present, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, 04/06/1973 - 05/10/1973; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 07/01/1973 - 08/25/1973 John Singer Sargent, his own work, Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., 05/27/1980 - 06/30/1980 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/13/2019 - 12/16/2020 Related Works 1916.496 John Singer Sargent Lake O'Hara Paintings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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