1920-1921

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Lowell, Abbott Lawrence

1920
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
60.5 cm. x 45.5 cm., actual

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Mrs Gardner in White

1920
Watercolor
Unknown size

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston, MA

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he following is from from Bert (The Pragmatic Romanticist): . . .A lovely watercolour of Isabella Stewart Gardner portraying her at age 82, after her debilitating stroke in 1919. "Even I think it is exquisite", she wrote of it. It is quietly intimate. I like it. It's from the book I have about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a place that I...
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Mrs. Louis Ormond

c. 1920
Graphite on off-white wove paper
30.8 x 21.9 cm (12 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Music

1921
Oil on canvas
94.6 x107.3 cm (37 1/4 x42 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Paul Manship

January 30, 1921
Charcoal on pinkish brown wove paper
54 x 43.3 cm (21 1/4 x 17 1/16 in)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Prometheus

1921
Oil on canvas
94.6 x107.3 cm (37 1/4 x42 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Notes: Special thanks to Lee Sandstead of New York, for being a friend of the JSS Gallery, for taking this picture on his trip and sharing this with us.
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Renatta Borgatti

1921
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Renata Borgatti (1894-1964) was a daughter of a famous Wagnerian tenor. She herself became a great concert pianist at a time when the field was overwhelmingly dominated by men. In 1920 she was painted by the expatriate American  Romaine Brooks (1874 - 1970). Brooks was made Croix de la Legion d'Honneur following the Salon de la...
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Sand Beach, Schooner Head

1917?
Watercolor
13.2 x 20.7 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Scooner Head is loacted in Acadia National Park, which is only a couple of miles south of Bar Harbor Maine. This painting, along with "Schooner Catherine Somes" was painted while Sargent was visiting cousins. The two paintings were in the Hale family and the figure on the beach was belived to have been of Mary Newbold Patterson Hale though never...
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Schooner, Catherine, Somes

c. 1920-1925
Watercolor
34.93 x 53.34 cm (13.75 x 21in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Note: Sold Sothebys; 12/5/1996; Lot 21; $134,500 Forum From: Donald L Smith <don sm itty@adelphia.net>  Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 Do you have any knowledge of the builder or owner of the Scooner Catherine Somes? I have been doing genealogy on the Welch family of Wells, ME and back in 1727/8 there was a marriage between David Welch...
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The Rotunda Dome

Murals and sculptures
Unknown size

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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