Harvard Art Museums > 1937.7.34: Sketchbook ("War 1918"): 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 ("War 1918"): Soldiers (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.7.34,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/307746. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 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 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 Related Works 1937.7.34.6 John Singer Sargent Compositional Sketch Drawings 1937.7.34.3 John Singer Sargent Boxcars for Military Transport Drawings 1937.7.34.4 John Singer Sargent Two Studies for "Gassed" Drawings 1937.7.34.7 John Singer Sargent Study for "Atlas and the Hesperides," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (?) Drawings 1937.7.34.1 John Singer Sargent Military Scene Drawings 1937.7.34.2 John Singer Sargent Landscape with Marching Soldiers Drawings 1937.7.34.5 John Singer Sargent Sketch of a Dog Drawings 1937.7.34.15 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Reclining Soldiers; Figure with Animals 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
