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Henry Tonks

1918
Pencil and ink on paper
24.8 x 37.1 cm (9 3/4 x 14 5/8 in.)

Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, UK

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Henry Tonks (1862-1937) studied medicine and became a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Tonks also attended drawing lessons at the London Technical Institute where he met the artist Frederick Brown. When Brown became principal of Slade Art School, he convinced Tonks to give up medicine and become one of its teachers. He joined the New...
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A Street in Arras

1918
Watercolour
39 x 52 cm

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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Arras  1918 From: Art of the First World War During his stay in France in the summer of 1918, Sargent travelled all over the Picardy and Artois regions. In Arras, he painted the ruins of the cathedral and collapsed houses like this one. A shell has burst through the wall, revealing an old horse-drawn carriage. The floor...
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Gassed

1918
Oil on canvas
Full painting -- 231 x 611.1 cm (91 x 240 1/2 in.)

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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Dulce et Decorum est    Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,  Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,  Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,  And towards our distant rest began to trudge.  Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,  But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all...
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Artillery on the March

1918
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Soldiers at Rest

1918
Watercolour over traces of pencil on paper
34.3 x 53.5 cm

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Notes:  Special thanks to Philip Rsheph, of London, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for help with this image and information.  Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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Thou Shalt Not Steal

1918
Watercolor on paper
52.7 x 33.6 cm (20 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.)

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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Study for Thou Shalt Not Steal 1918 National Portrait Gallery, London Pencil 25.4 x 17.8 cm (10  x 7 in.) (Image is full size) Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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The Interior of a Hospital Tent

1918
Watercolor on paper
38.5 x 51.9 cm (15 3/16 x 20 7/16 in.)

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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On September 24, Sargent was near Peronne with the Fourth Army Prisoners of War Transit Cage which was were they held the Prisoners taken from the front before sending them further back. Sargent made sketches here, but while doing so caught a bad case of influenza. He was taken to the 41st Casualty Clearing Station near Roisel were he stayed a...
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Garden Gate watercolor

1918
Watercolor on paper
39 x 52 cm

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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Note: The image was taken in the Imperial War Museum, London in the "Sargent Room" by  jkasummer05 (from webshots) uploaded: Jul 8, 2005. The painting, no doubt, is part of the grouping of watercolors that Sargent gave to the museum
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Mrs. Percival Duxbury and her Daughter

1918
Oil on canvas
143.5 x 120.7 cm (56 1/2 x 47 1/2 in)

Manchester City Art Galleries

Manchester, UK

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Note: Bibliography    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 581. McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. Illustration    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent:...
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Jascha Heifetz

March 1918
Pencil
9 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston, MA

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Ruined Cathedral, Arras

1918
Oil on canvas
22 x 28 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Wheels in Vault

1918
Watercolor, graphite, and wax on white wove paper
39.1 x 52.9 cm (15 3/8 x 20 13/16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Arras

1918
Unknown size

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Ruined CellarArras

1918
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, mounted to cardboard
36.5 x 54 cm (14 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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The Road

1918
Oil on canvas
38.1 x 67.31 cm (15 x 26 1/2 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Truck Convoy

1918
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
34 x 53.4 cm (13 3/8 x 21 1/16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Six Studies for Gassed

1918-1919
Charcoal
18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

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Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed

1918-1919
Charcoal (stumped in places) (left figures) and graphite (right figure); squared in graphite (right figure)
48.1 x 62.6 cm, Overall: 48.1 x 62.5 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

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Study for Gassed 2

1918
Mixed
18.7" x 24.3 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Camouflaged Field in France

1918
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and wax crayon on white wove paper
33.9 x 53.1 cm (13 5/16 x 20 15/16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Poperinghe: Two Soldiers

1918
Watercolor on paper
Overall: 33.9 x 53.1 cm (13 3/8 x 20 7/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Tommies Bathing

1918
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
15 5/16 x 20 13/16 in. (39 x 52.8 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Tommies Bathing (2)

1918
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper
33.9 x 53.1 cm (13 5/16 x 20 15/16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Camp with Ambulance

1918
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
39 x 52.7 cm (15 5/16 x 20 3/4 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Tents, Bailleul

1918
Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
33.7 x 52.4 cm (13 1/4 x 20 5/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Camouflaged Tanks, Berles-au-Bois

1918
Watercolor on paper
34 x 52.3 cm (13 3/8 x 20 9/16)

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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Military Camp

1918
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
34 x 53.1 cm (13 3/8 x 20 7/8 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Crashed Aeroplane

1918
Watercolour, pencil, and gouche on paper
13 1/2 x 21 in.

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Berles-au-Bois, France

1918
Watercolor
15.2" x 20.7 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Wrecked Sugar Refinery

1918
Watercolor and graphite
13 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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Dugout

1918
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
38.9 x 53 cm (15 5/16 x 20 7/8 in)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mules

1918
Watercolor, graphite, and wax crayon on off-white wove paper
33.4 x 53.1 cm (13 3/16 x 20 15/16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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