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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.79
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "Death and Victory" and "Coming of the Americans," with Architectural Framework, Widener Library, Harvard University
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1921-1922
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308859

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, charcoal, black ink and white gouache on buff wove paper
Dimensions
121.4 x 163.3 cm (47 13/16 x 64 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Sketch of panels / for Widener / by J. Sargent / received 18/1/33 / from Mr. T. Fox / through Dean / G. H. Edgell / R. P. Block[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Fox to Widener Library, Harvard University, 1933 [per inscription on verso]; placed on loan to Fogg Art Museum, 1955, and subsequently transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Widener Library
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.79
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 69, fig. 4
  • 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. 248-249, under no. 213/214

Verification Level

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