Portrait of General
Leonard Wood [1]
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1903
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
Inscribed: (Upper left:) John S. Sargent (Upper right:)
1903
Accession Number: NPG 96.50
Jpg: Askart.com
Description:
Bust portrait of General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) in his military
uniform.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Wood, Leonard, until 1927.
Wood, Leonard, Mrs,
Wood, Louise,
Wood, Harrison Wilson,
Sotheby's, New York, New York Sale (May 22, 1996), lot 30.
Exhibitions:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Seventy Third Annual Exhibition,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1904, no. 56.
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, no. 441.
"Life in America: a special loan exhibition of paintings held during
the period of the New York World's fair, April 24 to October 29, 1939,"
Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.: Scribner press, 1939.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, pg. 99.
"Life in America," Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y.: Scribner Press,
1939, Pl. 266.
SIRIS IAP 81110137
Sold Sothebys; 5/22/1996;
Lot 30; $57,500
(1)
4/19/01 -- Found the
painting listed
with picture in the Grand Central Art Galleries 1924, John Singer
Sargent
Retrospective catolouge. The name of the painting was listed as
"Portrait
of General Leonard Wood." Askart.com had the panting listed as
"Portrait
of Major General."
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