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Sketchbook ("War 1918"): Soldiers
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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.
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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 ("War 1918"): Soldiers
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.
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