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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.34
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("War 1918"): Soldiers
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1918
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307746

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
26.2 x 37.2 x 0.8 cm (10 5/16 x 14 5/8 x 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front pastedown, paper, printed: NEWMAN / [encircled:] 24 / Soho Square / Every Requisite for Drawing & Painting
  • inscription: front cover of sketchbook, brown ink: War 1918
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite: 72 [J.?] Whatman

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
1937.7.34
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining. Eight drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Pages have been removed, and the numbering was apparently done after their removal. Missing are a page after page three (a charcoal or chalk offset remains on the verso of page 3) and at least two pages after page four. A number of pages in the sketchbook are loose.

Contents: The sketchbook dates from Sargent's trip to the Western Front in 1918, and includes studies of soldiers and box cars; study for "Gassed" (1919, Imperial War Museum, London). Nude study, possibly for "Atlas and the Hesperides" (1925, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); miscellaneous sketches.

Publication History

  • 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, p. 34

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