Edited by Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber

©2000; 88 pages, 8 1/2 x 11", (paper) 81 illustrations, 14 in color.

ISSN:1065-6448 $10

In honor of 1999's "Summer of Sargent," which included the Fogg exhibition Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches (June 10-September 4), we have gathered essays by curatorial staff, conservators, and art historians that explore John Singer Sargent's Harvard connections: the murals he completed for Widener Library memorializing the World War I dead; the 35 sketchbooks and 5 albums his sisters gave to the Fogg after his death; and recent conservation work on a Fogg-owned model that Sargent used in planning his mural series for the Boston Public Library. The issue is an important addition to the growing research on this renowned American artist.

Includes the following essays:
Sargent's Legacy: An American Inheritance, by Melinda Linderer
A discussion of the dissemination of works from Sargent's estate by his sisters Emily Sargent and Violet Ormond, including a descriptive list of inventory numbers compiled by Thomas Fox--the artist's associate and executor--to identify preparatory works for Sargent's mural projects.

Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum, by Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber
Brief descriptions of the composition and contents of thirty-three sketchbooks and five albums in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum.

John Singer Sargent's Use of Scale Models for his Triumph of Religion Murals (1890-1919) at the Boston Public Library," and "Sargent's Scale Model for the Trinity Lunette and the Frieze of Angels: Examination and Conservation, by Katherine Olivier

Reconstruction of Sargent's Scale Model for the Crucifix, by Nancy Lloyd
Focussing on the fragments of a one-third scale model in the Fogg's collection, these studies by conservators at the Straus Center for Conservation at the Harvard University Art Museums examine Sargent's use of preparatory models for his mural project at the Boston Public Library. The technical examination and treatment of the model sections--which had last been exhibited in 1927--and the finished panels are discussed in detail.

The Art of Selling War: Sargent's World War I Murals for Harvard University, by Jane Dini
An analysis of the sources and cultural contexts for Sargent's murals in Harvard's Widener Library, Coming of the Americans and Death and Victory, 1921-22.