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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.208
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "The Winds", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1921 - 1925
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230619

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
173 x 82.2 cm (68 1/8 x 32 3/8 in.)

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
1937.208
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 607(?)
  • Melinda Linderer, "Sargent's Legacy: An American Inheritance", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 7-11, p. 7, fig. 1
  • 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. 341-42, cat. no. 361, reproduced in b&w, p. 342

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926
  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

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