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The Doctrine of the Trinity, Frieze of Angels, with the Crucifixion (South End, lunette)

1903
Murals

Boston Public Library

Boston, MA

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Frieze of Angels

1903
Oil on canvas with plaster and papier-mache reliefs
213.4 x 674.4 cm

Boston Public Library

Boston, MA

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The Frieze of Angels with eight in number represent Regeneration and the Resurrection as Christ rose on the eighth day.   Below Christ's feet and between the two angles is a pelican feeding its young from the blood of its breast which is also an ancient symbol of the Resurrection (Charteris P.166). The Doctrine of the Trinity,...
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Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch

1903
Oil on canvas
144.2 x 92.1 cm (56 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.)

Joslyn Art Museum

Omaha, NE

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Painted in 1903 when the artist was in Boston supervising a mural project for the Boston Public Library (Joslyn, 10/13/2008) Three-quarter-length seated portrait of Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1867-1941) wearing a white and blue gown with blue stole. A base of a pillar is behind her at left; she rests her right arm on a table covered with...
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The Official White House portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt

1903
Oil on canvas
58 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.

The White House Collection

Washington, D.C.

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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) twenty-sixth president of the United States.   Sargent's painting would be the official portrait of the President, but it wasn't the first. In 1902 Theobald Chartran was  commissioned to paint portraits of the President and his wife. Although she enjoyed her's (a feminine portrait of her on a bench outside...
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Portrait of John Hay

1903
Oil
Unknown size

John Hay Library, Brown University

Providence, RI

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John Hay was the U.S. Secretary of State. From: Brown University During the month of February, 1903, John Singer Sargent painted John Hay's portrait.  In a letter written to his daughter, Helen Hay Whitney, Hay wrote facetiously: "It is an odd thought that most of my reputation will depend on this picture." The following year, Augustus...
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Portrait of General Leonard Wood

1903
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)

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Description:     Bust portrait of General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) in his military uniform. (SIRIS) Note:  Exhibitions:     Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Seventy Third Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1904, no. 56. Bibliography:     Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John...
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Edward Robinson

1903
Oil on canvas
143.5 x92.1 cm (56 1/2 x 36 1/4 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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This portrait is of the esteemed director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts -- Edward Robinson who was appointed director in 1902. It is the same Edward Robinson who would later strike the deal with Sargent (1916) to buy Madame X for the Metropolitan Museum in New York. John had known Edward since the 1890's when Edward was  working at the...
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Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott (mug)

1903
Charcoal
29 x 20 in

Peabody Essex Museum

Salem, MA

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Mrs. J. William White

1903
Oil on canvas
76.4 x 63.7 cm (30 1/16 x 25 1/16 in)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia, PA

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James Whitcomb Riley

1903
Oil on canvas
77.5 x 90.2 cm (30.5 x 35.5 in)

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Indianapolis, IN

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