1922.164: Study of the American Flag, for "Coming of the Americans," Widener Library, Harvard University

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1922.164

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Study of the American Flag, for "Coming of the Americans," Widener Library, Harvard University

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Entering the War

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1921-1922

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306121

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

48 x 63.3 cm (18 7/8 x 24 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.l.: John S. Sargent
• watermark: CANSON & MONTGOLFIER / FRANCE / INGRES [with design]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1922.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John Singer Sargent

Accession Year

1922

Object Number

1922.164

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), no. 161, p. 75
• 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. 71, fig. 7

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, MFA Boston, 1928, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/01/1928 - 07/31/1932
• Sargent's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/03/1956 - 02/07/1956

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