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	General view of South End, Sargent Hall, Boston Public Library 1903 Boston Public Library Mural

	The Doctrine of the Trinity lunette and Frieze of Angels, with the Crucifixion (South End) 1903 Natasha Boston Public Library Mural

	Detail of Crucifixion 1903 Natasha Boston Public Library Mural

	Detail of head of Christ before vacuuming, spring 1999 1903 Boston Public Library Mural

	Detail of head of Christ (after vacuuming, spring 1999) 1903 Boston Public Library Mural

	Detail of head of Adam (after vacuuming, spring 1999) 1903 Boston Public Library Mural

	Detail of a figure in the Trinity 1903 Boston Public Library Mural

	Detail of hand from the Trinity 1903 Boston Public Library Mural

	Frieze of Angels 1903 Boston Public Library Mural

	Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch 1903 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Oil on canvas 144.2 x 92.1 cm (56 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.) Inscribed: (Upper right:) John S. Sargent 1903 Lent Anonymously Accession Number: JAM.5.1987

	President Theodore Roosevelt 1903 Natasha Essay The White House, Washington, D.C. Oil on canvas 58 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.

	Portrait of John Hay, U.S. Secretary of State 1903, Washington D.C. Natasha John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Oil Size? Gift of Hay's grandson, John Hay.

	Portrait of General Leonard Wood 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 (See the Smithsonian Institution essay)

	Edward Robinson 1903 Natasha Metropolitan Museum, New York Oil on canvas 143.5 x92.1 cm (56 1/2 x 36 1/4 in.) Gift of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1931 31.60

	Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott (mug) 1903 Natasha Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Charcoal 29 x 20 in

	Mrs. J. William White 1903 Philadelphia Museum of Art Oil on canvas 76.4 x 63.7 cm (30 1/16 x 25 1/16 in) Gallery 119, American Art, first floor # F1925-5-1, Mrs. J. William White Collection, 1925

	James Whitcomb Riley 1903 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Oil on canvas 77.5 x 90.2 cm (30.5 x 35.5 in) Painted on commission from the Art Association of Indianapolis Accession number 03.7

	Mr. Niederhauer 1903 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Graphite pencil on paper 21.5 x 16.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/2 in.) Anonymous gift in memory of John G. Pierce, Sr. 64.2009

	Mrs. Fiske Warren & Her Daughter c.1903 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas 152.4 x 102.55 cm (60 x 40 3/8 in.) Gift of Mrs. Rachel Warren Barton and Emily L. Ainsley Fund 64.693

	Ethel Barrymore 1903 Natasha Private collection Charcoal on paper Size? Signed:lower

	Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott Jr. 1903 Private collection Oil on canvas 142.2 by 88.5 cm (56 by 35 in.) signed John S. Sargent and dated 1903, u.l.

	Charles Martin Loeffler 1903 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Oil on canvas 87.5 x 62 cm (34 1/2 x 24 3/8 in.) inscribed: to Mrs Gardner con bouone feste / from her friend John S. Sargent

	Mrs. Gardiner Green Hammond (Esther Fiske Hammond) 1903 Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Oil on canvas 63.5 x 63.83 cm (25 x 25.13 in.)

	Henry Lee Higginson (1834-1919) 1903 Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Oil on canvas 245 x 153 cm (actual) Gift of by student subscription to the Harvard Union, 1903 Signature: l.l.: J. S. Sargent 1903 (Notes on painting at Harvard) (Charcoal "Mug" 1911) (Ida Agassiz Higginson "Mug" 1917)

	Peter A. B. Widener 1903 Private collection Oil on canvas 127 x 101.60 cm (50 x 40 in.)

	Mrs. Charles Pelham Curtis 1903 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine Oil on canvas 152.2 x 76.2 cm (60 x 30 in.) Inscription: (Upper left:) John S. Sargent (Upper right:) 1903 signed Accession Number: 1982.275



	Santiago de Compostella 1903 Collection of Harry and Cookie Spiro Watercolor and pencil on paper 9 1/2 x 13 5/8 in Inscribed lower left "John S Sargent to Philip" Inscribed lower right: "Santiago de Compostela"

	Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1903 Muesem of Fine Arts, Boston Watercolor over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper 34.4 x 45.7 cm (13 9/16 x 18 in.) The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund 21.143

	Fortress, Roads and Rocks 1903 ? Private collection Watercolor and gouache on paper 29.8 x 45.1 cm (11¾ x 17¾ in.)

	A Spanish Interior 1903 Private collection Watercolor on paper 57.15 x 45.72 cm (22.5 x 18 in)

	Spanish Interior c. 1903 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Watercolor 25.4 x 35.56 cm (14 x 10 in.)

	Cordova: Interior of the Cathedral c 1903 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite pencil on paper 50.2 x 34.9 cm (19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.) Bequest of Elise Fay Loeffler 37.413

	Stable at Cuenca 1903 Private collection Oil on board 57.15 x 72.07 cm (22.5 x 28.38 in.)

	Spanish Solders 1903 Natasha Essay Watercolor

	Spanish Solders 2 1903 The Brookklyn Museum, New York Watercolor and pencil on paper 45.9 x 30.6 cm (18 1/16 x 12 1/16 in.) Purchase by Special Subscription

	A Spanish Barracks c.1903 Private collection Watercolor and pencil on paper 30.2 by 45.4 cm (11 7/8 by 17 7/8 in.) signed John S. Sargent, dated 1906 and inscribed to my friend Dr. Hugh Playfair, u.r.

	Evora, Portugal c. 1903 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Watercolor on paper 30 x 45 cm (11 13/16 x 17 11/16 in.) The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund 21.142

	Vianna do Castello, Portugal c. 1903 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper 30 x 45 cm (11 13/16 x 17 11/16 in.) Bequest of Elise Fay Loeffler 37.414

	Thomar, Portugal "probably 1903"[ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper Sheet: 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.) The Hayden Collection–Charles Henry Hayden Fund 21.144

	Marionettes 1903 Private collection Oil on canvas 72.4 x 53.3 cm (28 1/2 x 21 in.)

	Scuola di San Rocco 1903 Natasha Private collection Watercolor on paper 35.6 x 50.8 (Overview of Venice) (Photo of San Rocco)

	Venice (a watercolor) c. 1903 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper 25.1 x 35.2 cm (9 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.) Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.37)

	Venice: the prisons c. 1903 Private collection Watercolor on paper 25.4 x 34.3 cm

	Palazzo Labia with Campanile of San Geremia 1903 Spanierman Gallery, New York Watercolor on paper 14 x 10 in

	IL Gesuati c. 1903 Private collection Watercolor 39.37 x 30.32 cm (15.5 x 11.94 in.)

	Boats at anchor on the Lagoons, Venice Date? Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge Watercolour, bodycolour and traces of graphite on Whatman board 36.2 x 52.6 cm

	Ponte San Giuseppe di Castello, Venice c.1903 - 1904 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Watercolor on paper 32.03 x 47.27 cm (12.61 x 18.61 in)

	Boats, Venice 1903 Natasha Private collection Watercolor on paper 14 x 19¾ in. (35.6 x 50.2 cm.) signed ll: 'John S Sargent'

	Venice, sailing boat c. 1903 Private collection Watercolor 23.5 x 34.3 cm

	On the Canal 1903 Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France Watercolor on paper 34.29 x 49.53 cm (13.5 x 19.5 in)

	Festa Della Regatta c.1903 Private collection Watercolor on paper and oil on glass 13.5 x 19 in.

	Steps of a Palace 1903 Owner? Watercolor on paper 25.40 x 35.56 cm (10 x 14 in)

1903 (47 years old)
Year In Context

In January he installs new panels in the Boston Public Library cycle. This time at the south end. Where the North was the Old Testament, the South is then the New Testament and the Christian Faith -- Dogma of Redemption: Trinity, Crucifix, Frieze of Angles.

In the lunette above is the Trinity with the Father, Son and Holly Ghost. In the center is the Son of God in the flesh as Jesus who is on the cross for our sins and below that is the Frieze of Angles.

Within the Crucifixion, Adam and Eve are to the left and right of the cross in submissive posture and holding cups under the wounds of Christ to collect his blood.

Two angles of the Frieze carry the cross of Passion and woven in their robes are symbols of the Eucharist: wheat and wine.

The Frieze of Angels with eight in number represent Regeneration and the Resurrection as Christ rose on the eighth day. Below Christ's feet and between the two angles is a pelican feeding its young from the blood of its breast which is an ancient symbol of the Resurrection (Charteris P.166).
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In February he goes to Washinton D.C and paints President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House. On the 23rd, he attends the public opening day of Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- Fenway Court, Boston.

March through April he is in Boston and paints portraits in a studio (the Gothic room) of Mrs. Gardner's palazzo Fenway Court. Followed by and Exhibition of portraits held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

May thru June -- Sargent gives the first ever major exhibition of his watercolors and sketches at the Carfax Gallery in London, England. In this solo exhibition, 30 works are shown, none were for sale. The public for the first time is treated to Sargent's watercolors as the major exhibit. Though he had been painting watercolors since a little boy with his mother, the public is surprised at his foray into this "new" medium.

In May he sails for Spain and sends serveral weeks in the interior before arriving in Madrid on June 12th. Here he registers to copy Velazquez at the Prado. John is always trying to learn and continually strives to grow. Then on to Portugal, and Santiago de Compostella.

September thru October he's in Venice and by December he's back in London.

November, two profiles on him show up in "The World's Work" a section in Scribners monthly.

Alice Meynell's monograph on Sargent is published.

He is awarded the L.L.D. by the University of Pennsylvania.

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Footnote 1

Boston Public Library Murals

"The idea of Adam and Eve receiving the blood of Christ on the Cross is found in a thirteenth-century window at Angers, and in another at Bourges. These are referred to in Emile Male's 'Religious Art in France, Thirteenth Century,' a book which was in the possession of Sargent and sold after his death." (footnote in Charteris' book: P.167)