Collection Highlights
Flags on 57th Street, Winter 1918
Date:
1918
Object Number:
1984.68
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Luce Center
The Reading Club: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Seated with Another Man and Reading Shakespeare; verso: sketch of a woman holding up her hands
Object Number:
1935.85.2.151
Date:
c. 1875
Medium:
Graphite on ivory paper, formerly mounted on a page of Album 2
Dimensions:
3 3/4 x 5 13/16 in.
Marks:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "CB [monogram]"; inscribed at lower left in graphite: "The reading club -- "; at lower right: "Sargent reading Shakespere[sic]"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in graphite: "CB [monogram]"; inscribed at lower left in graphite: "The reading club -- "; at lower right: "Sargent reading Shakespere[sic]"
Description:
Drawing from a bound album of 308 tipped in works by Beckwith. Signed at lower right in graphite: CB (monogram); inscribed at lower left in graphite: The reading club --; at lower right: Sargent reading Shakespeare.
Verso: Loose sketch of a woman applying makeup(?). Oriented Vertically.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Provenance:
James Carroll Beckwith; the National Academy of Design, New York
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
