1943.314: Olive Trees, Corfu

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.314

People

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

Title

Olive Trees, Corfu

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1909

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307928

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on white wove paper

Dimensions

35.5 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: John S. Sargent, Corfu
• inscription: u.r. of verso, graphite: 1004

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist to Scott and Fowles, New York, 1921; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop, 1922; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.314

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Water Colors by John S. Sargent", American Art News (December 10, 1921), XX, no. 9, p. 2
• Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 58, repr.
• John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
• Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. p. 113 (color)
• John Esten, Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors, Universe Press (New York, NY, 2000), repr. in color, pp. 44-45
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 463-64, cat. 210, ill.
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), pp. 476-77, cat. 209, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• 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. 329, cat. no. 346, reproduced in color
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 283 notes 1 and 2
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), pp. 97, 98 (notes 1 and 2), 233
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), no. 1518, repr., pp. 83, 102-103, 255

Exhibition History

• Water Colors by Sargent, Scott and Fowles, 12/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006

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