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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.48
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for East Wall, Boston Public Library (Tripartite design: Shrine, Landscape, Shrine); verso: Sketch for an Arch, Boston Public Library
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1895-1919
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306605

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on dark cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 26.3 x 41 cm (10 3/8 x 16 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent (through Thomas A. Fox, Esq.), 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent (through Thomas A. Fox, Esq.)
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.48
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Derrick Randall Cartwright, "Reading Rooms: Interpreting the American Public Library Mural" (Ph.D Diss., University of Michigan, 1994), Unpublished, p. 147, note 138
  • Sally M. Promey, "Sargent's Truncated Triumph: Art and Religion at the Boston Public Library", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (June 1997), vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 217-250, p. 225; recto: fig. 15
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 205, under no. 96
  • Sally M. Promey, Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1999), p. 44, fig. 21

Verification Level

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