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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
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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

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