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Jascha Heifetz March 1918 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Ruined Cathedral, Arras 1918 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Henry Tonks 1918 Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
A Street in Arras 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
Wheels in Vault 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Arras 1918 | GA | igrkio | ||
Ruined CellarArras 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Gassed 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
The Road 1918 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Truck Convoy 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Artillery on the March 1918 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Six Studies for Gassed 1918-1919 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | ||
Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed 1918-1919 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | GA | igrkio | ||
Study for Gassed 2 1918 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Camouflaged Field in France 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Soldiers at Rest 1918 |
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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Poperinghe: Two Soldiers 1918 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Thou Shalt Not Steal 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
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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Tommies Bathing 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Tommies Bathing (2) 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Camp with Ambulance 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Tents, Bailleul 1918 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Camouflaged Tanks, Berles-au-Bois 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK | GA | igrkio | ||
Military Camp 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
The Interior of a Hospital Tent 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
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... | GA | igrkio | |
Garden Gate watercolor 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
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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Crashed Aeroplane 1918 | GA | igrkio | ||
Berles-au-Bois, France 1918 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
A Wrecked Sugar Refinery 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK | GA | igrkio | ||
Dugout 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Mules 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. Percival Duxbury and her Daughter 1918 Manchester City Art Galleries Manchester, UK |
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:... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent