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![]() | The Countess of Rocksavage later Marchioness of Cholmondeley (Sybil Sassoon) 1922 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
Three-quarter-length
standing portrait of the Countess of Rocksavage wearing a black dress with
stand-up collar, gold panel down the front, red accents, and gold train hanging
for the shoulders. She wears several long strands of pearls with a gold winged
jewel hanging at her breast. She holds a single flower in her right... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | The Artist Sketching 1922 Private collection on loan to the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI | ![]()
I have been
told that Edith was the photographer of the photo of Sargent
on Dwight's yacht [Thumbnail]. Note that Sargent, who
always like to paint under a large parasol/umbrella,
had no place to put the parasol on board the boat, so he tied it to his leg,
with supporting stays to various parts of the boat. Several of those lines are
visible in... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | On the Verandah (Ironbound Island, Maine) 1920-1922? Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
Sargent
painted his friend and artist Dwight Blaney. This would be one of Sargent's
last scene paintings.
From: Ben Blaney
bb la
ney@ironbound.net
Date: Wednesday, December 17-20, 2003
JSS visited
my grandfather Dwight Blaney several times on Ironbound Island, and made at
least 7 paintings there, only 2 of which I found on... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Abbott Lawrence Lowell 1923 Harvard University Art Museums, Portrait Collection Cambridge, MA | ![]()
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence
1920
Notes:
Bibliography:
"Annals
of America", Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. XIV
Laura M.
Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits, A Catalogue of Portrait Painting at Harvard
University, Harvard University Press, 1936, p. 90
Harvard
Business School Bulletin, "Four Men and a Foundation", June,... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Sir Philip Sassoon 1923 | ![]()
charcoal drawing of Sir Philip Sassoon
1923?
See
Sargent's paintings of Sasson's sister:
Sibyl
Sasson-Countess of Rocksavage
1913
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![]() | Duke of York (later King George V) 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
These first
two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which
commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r.
1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother), daughter of... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
These first
two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which
commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r.
1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother), daughter of... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Lady Elixabeth Bowes-Lyon 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
These first
two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which
commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r.
1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother), daughter of... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Viscountess Astor 1923 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | |
![]() | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge 1923 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | ![]()
From: Special Collections
in the Library of Congress
In 1935
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864-1953), one of the great patrons of music,
created at the Library of Congress the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
for the support of chamber music. Her aim, Mrs. Coolidge wrote in that year's
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, was "to make... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent