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Sketchbook: Soldiers
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Sketchbook with red-cloth-covered cardboard covers. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining. Eighteen drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Some pages have been removed, including the page before page one and possibly three pages after page nine.
Contents: The sketchbook dates from Sargent's trip to the Western Front in 1918, and contains studies of soldiers. Also, sketches for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, murals, including "Orpheus and Eurydice" and "Apollo and Daphne" (unused); staircase in Lord Leconfield's house, Chesterfield Gardens, London; sconce, clasped hands.
Department of Drawings
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Title: Sketchbook: Soldiers
Description:
Sketchbook with red-cloth-covered cardboard covers.
Pages of off-white wove paper.
Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining.
Eighteen drawings.
The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners.
Some pages have been removed, including the page before page one and possibly three pages after page nine.
Contents: The sketchbook dates from Sargent's trip to the Western Front in 1918, and contains studies of soldiers.
Also, sketches for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, murals, including "Orpheus and Eurydice" and "Apollo and Daphne" (unused); staircase in Lord Leconfield's house, Chesterfield Gardens, London; sconce, clasped hands.
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