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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Group in the Simplon, 1911
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
36 cm x 50.9 cm, actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen, 1927.7
Signature: brown ink, u.r.: John S. Sargent
Marks:
inscription: verso, graphite, brown ink, u.r.: John S. Sargent: [encircled:] 5994
Notes:
Donalson Hoopes, author of "Sargent Watercolors" (1976), visited the Fogg in July of 1965. Hoopes identified the woman on the left as Dorothy Barnard, whom Sargent had painted nearly twenty-five years earlier in "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" (1885-86, Tate Gallery, London). The woman on the right was identified by Hoopes as Rose-Marie Ormond, Sargent's niece. This watercolor is one of a group which were executed by Sargent in the summer of 1911. See "Simplon Pass: The Lesson," "Simplon Pass: The Tease," "Reading," "Simplon Pass: The Green Parasol," and "Simplon Pass: At the Top" (all 1911, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). 6/99: Richard Ormond agreed with the identification of the subjects.
Provenance:
Charteris, the Hon. Evan K. C. (Owner)..
Duveen, Sir Joseph (Owner)., Gift to Fogg Art Museum 1927.
Bibliography:
Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 75
Fogg Art Museum Handbook [1st ed.] (Cambridge, MA, 1927), repr. in b/w p. 60
Fogg Art Museum Handbook [2nd ed.] (Cambridge, MA, 1931), repr. in b/w p. 76
Fogg Art Museum Handbook [3rd ed.] (Cambridge, MA, 1936), repr. in b/w p. 115
American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), No. 118, repr.
John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
Sue Welsh Reed and Carol Troyen, Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1993), p. 161, note 2
Warren Adelson, Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes (New York, NY, 1997), repr. in color p.96, fig. 86
Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. p. 9 (color)
Exhibition History:
Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926
Unidentified Exhibition, Crandall Free Library, 1933, Crandall Free Library, Glens Falls, 03/01/1933 - 03/31/1933
Unidentified Exhibition, Iowa State University, 1936, Iowa State University, Ames, 01/01/1936 - 12/31/1936
Unidentified Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, 1940, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940
Unidentified Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, 1944, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 02/01/1944 - 02/28/1944
Unidentified Exhibition, Symphony Hall, 1928, Symphony Hall, Boston, 11/01/1938 - 12/31/1938
Unidentified Watercolor Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1940, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 11/29/1939 - 12/31/1939
Exhibition of Water Colors: Homer, Sargent, Marin, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, 04/18/1947 - 06/11/1947
American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
Unidentified Exhibition, Thomas Crane Public Library, 1955, Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, 08/15/1955 - 08/20/1955
American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
The United States and the Impressionist Era, San José Museum of Art, San José, 11/21/1979 - 01/09/1980
Keywords: Figure studies / Landscapes / Switzerland