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The Doctrine of the Trinity, Frieze of Angels, with the Crucifixion (South End, lunette) 1903 Boston Public Library Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Frieze of Angels 1903 Boston Public Library Boston, MA |
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,... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch 1903 Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, NE |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
The Official White House portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt 1903 The White House Collection Washington, D.C. |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
Portrait of John Hay 1903 John Hay Library, Brown University Providence, RI |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
Portrait of General Leonard Wood 1903 |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
Edward Robinson 1903 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott (mug) 1903 Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. J. William White 1903 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA | GA | igrkio | ||
James Whitcomb Riley 1903 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent