Sketchbook ("War 1918"): Soldiers

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Description

Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining. Eight drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Pages have been removed, and the numbering was apparently done after their removal. Missing are a page after page three (a charcoal or chalk offset remains on the verso of page 3) and at least two pages after page four. A number of pages in the sketchbook are loose. Contents: The sketchbook dates from Sargent's trip to the Western Front in 1918, and includes studies of soldiers and box cars; study for "Gassed" (1919, Imperial War Museum, London). Nude study, possibly for "Atlas and the Hesperides" (1925, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); miscellaneous sketches.

Dimensions

26.2 x 37.2 x 0.8 cm (10 5/16 x 14 5/8 x 5/16 in.)

Provenance

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.