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 | Esther, Viscountess Hambleden 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
Here is
another grouping of several family members. These are three sisters: the first being Mabell, Countess of
Airlie (1923), the second being Alice, Marchioness of Salisbury, and the third
being Esther, Viscountess Hambleden.
All three
of these are... | GA | igrkio |
 | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge 1923 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. |
From: Special Collections
in the Library of Congress
In 1935
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864-1953), one of the great patrons of music,
created at the Library of Congress the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
for the support of chamber music. Her aim, Mrs. Coolidge wrote in that year's
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, was "to make... | GA | igrkio |
 | Eleutherios Venizelos 1924 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Eleutherios (Kyriakos) Venizelos, (1864-1936) Greek statesman and prime
minister (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), born in Mourniés,
Crete, Greece.
He studied law in Athens, led the Liberal Party in the Cretan chamber of
deputies, and took a prominent part in the Cretan rising against the Turks in
1896. As prime minister of Greece, he... | GA | igrkio |
 | Duke of York (later King George V) 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
These first
two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which
commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r.
1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother), daughter of... | GA | igrkio |
 | Death and Victory 1922 Widener Memorial Library Cambridge, MA |
Notes
Bibliography:
Margaret E.
Gilman, "The Sargent Panels in the Widener
Library", Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Dec. 1922, pp. 215-216
Harvard
Crimson, Dec. 4, 1928
John Walker
III, "To the Editor of the Crimson", Harvard Crimson, June 7, 1929
"Sargent Murals Well Received at First Appearance",
Harvard Crimson, June 8, 1929, p.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Daisy Fellowes (Honourable Mrs. Renginal "Daisy" Fellowes) Charcoal on paper Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From Sothebys
(9/30/08)
Daisy
Fellowes, an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, is acknowledged as
having been one of the 20th century's most stylish and glamorous women. Born in
Paris in 1890 of American and French descent, from the 1920's onwards Daisy was
one of the uncrowned queens of the social scene and a leader of fashion... | GA | igrkio |
 | Constellation: Rainy Day 1924 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Commodore Sears aboard the yacht Constellation 1924 Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Coming of the Americans 1922 Widener Memorial Library Cambridge, MA |
Notes
Bibliography:
Margaret E.
Gilman, "The Sargent Panels in the Widener
Library", Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Dec. 1922, pp. 215-216
Harvard
Crimson, Dec. 4, 1928
John Walker
III, "To the Editor of the Crimson", Harvard Crimson, June 7, 1929
"Sargent Murals Well Received at First Appearance",
Harvard Crimson, June 8, 1929, p. 1... | GA | igrkio |
 | Chiron and Achilles 1922-25 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
Sargent
ended up doing two versions of this composition, although both are of
significantly different mediums. The first (Thumbnail below) was part of a base
Bas-Relief for the Rotunda and was of raised painted plaster. The second (featured above) was later created for
the Stairway Ceiling Decorations and was oil on canvas.
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- John Singer Sargent
