Harvard Art Museums > 1937.7.33.1-15: Sketchbook: Soldiers 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"Sketchbook: Soldiers (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.7.33.1-15,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/307745. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.7.33.1-15 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Sketchbook: Soldiers Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 1918 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307745 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with red cloth-covered cardboard covers Dimensions 25.6 x 35.8 x 1 cm (10 1/16 x 14 1/8 x 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: front pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: Gen. Wilson / Chief of the 10th Corps inscription: front pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: J. S. Sargent / 31 Tite Street / Chelsea Provenance Recorded Ownership History To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond Accession Year 1937 Object Number 1937.7.33.1-15 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. Descriptions Description Sketchbook with red-cloth-covered cardboard covers. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining. Eighteen drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Some pages have been removed, including the page before page one and possibly three pages after page nine. Contents: The sketchbook dates from Sargent's trip to the Western Front in 1918, and contains studies of soldiers. Also, sketches for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, murals, including "Orpheus and Eurydice" and "Apollo and Daphne" (unused); staircase in Lord Leconfield's house, Chesterfield Gardens, London; sconce, clasped hands. Publication History Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 97, under note 1 Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, pp. 33-34 Exhibition History Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999 Related Works 1937.7.33.14 John Singer Sargent Blank page Drawings 1937.7.33.15 John Singer Sargent Study of a Wall Sconce; verso: Study of Clasped Hands Drawings 1937.7.33.13 John Singer Sargent Blank page Drawings 1937.7.33.4 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Soldiers in Rain Capes (recto and verso) Drawings 1937.7.33.9 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Soldiers in an Open Boxcar; Studies for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Murals Drawings 1937.7.33.10 John Singer Sargent Partial Sketch of a Man's Head Drawings 1937.7.33.11 John Singer Sargent Blank page Drawings 1937.7.33.1 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Soldiers on a Train Drawings 1937.7.33.2 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Two Soldiers; verso: Sketch of a Soldier Drawings 1937.7.33.3 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Three Soldiers Drawings 1937.7.33.5 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Soldiers in Rain Capes; verso: Sketches of Soldiers at Rest Drawings 1937.7.33.6 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Standing Soldiers (recto and verso) Drawings 1937.7.33.7 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Standing Soldiers Drawings 1937.7.33.8 John Singer Sargent Sketches of Soldiers in an Open Boxcar; verso: Orpheus and Eurydice, for Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Drawings 1937.7.33.12 John Singer Sargent Staircase in Lord Leconfield's House, London Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
