H357: Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H357

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, American (1856-1943)

Title

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1923-1924

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/302046

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

140.6 x 98.7 cm (55 3/8 x 38 7/8 in.)
framed: 163.8 x 122.9 x 7.6 cm (64 1/2 x 48 3/8 x 3 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: John S. Sargent 1923

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift to Harvard College of members of the Board of Overseers who served during President Lowell's administration, 1924

Object Number

H357

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Forbes Watson, "John Singer Sargent", The Arts, Hamilton Easter Field (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1924), V (March), pp. 140, 149, p. 149, ill. p. 146
• Rose V.S. Berry, "John Singer Sargent: Some of His American Work", Art and Archaeology (Concord, N.H., September 1924), vol. 18, pp. 82-112, p. 84, ill. p. 82
• "Portrait of Pres. Lowell", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, January 16, 1924), Part I:II, n.p.
• Leila Mechlin, "The Sargent Exhibition: Grand Central Art Galleries New York", The American Magazine of Art (April 1924), vol. XV, no. 4, pp. 168-190, p. 170, ill. p. 174
• Retrospective Exhibition of Important Works by John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Grand Central Art Galleries (New York, NY, 1924), repr. p. 20
• 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. 123, repr.
• William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent, His Life and Work, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1925), p. 257
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent (Boston, 1926), no. 127, repr.
• Evan Charteris, John Sargent, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1927), p. 277
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 90, ill. p. 91
• Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1955), p. 441
• Edward Waldo Forbes, History of the Fogg Art Museum, Unpublished (1956), p. 148
• David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), cat. no. 51. p. 69; p. 62, repr. in b/w as fig. 51; p. 107
• Samuel Eliot Morison, "Harvard Presidency", American Heritage, American Association for State and Local History (Cooperstown, NY, 1957 - 1958)
• Annals of America, Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago, IL, 1968 - 1969), vol. XIV
• John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
• "Four Men and a Foundation", Harvard Business School Bulletin (Boston, MA, June 1981)
• Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 10, cat.8
• Bruce Robertson, ed., Sargent and Italy, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Princeton University Press (Los Angeles, CA and Princeton, NJ, 2002), pp. 185-186
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven CT and London England, 2003), no. 606, repr. in color; p. 213
• 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. 347, cat. 364, ill.
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), p. 127
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), p. 78 note 161, p. 79 note 203
• Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), pp. 23, 35, fig. 21
• Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 370

Exhibition History

• Retrospective Exhibition of Important Works of John Singer Sargent, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 02/01/1924 - 03/31/1924
• Sargent's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/03/1956 - 02/07/1956
• Introduction to Harvard University, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 04/01/1974 - 04/30/1974
• American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994

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