Painting Index 1920-1921

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1920 thru 1921

	Title
	Mrs. Gardner in White 1920 Natasha Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Watercolor

	Schooner Catherine Somes c. 1920-1925 Natasha Private collection Watercolor 13.7 x 21 in. (Painted in the State of Maine)

	Sand Beach Schooner Head 1917? Natasha Private collection Watercolor 13.2 x 20.7 in.

	Mrs. Louis Ormond c. 1920 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Graphite on off-white wove paper 30.8 x 21.9 cm (12 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.) Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.153)

	Wm Roscoe Thayer 1920 Owner? Charcoal on paper Size?

	James Ford Rhodes 1920 Owner? Charcoal on paper Size?

	Charles Sprague Sargent ("Mug") 1920 Natasha Owner? Charcoal Size? (The First Director of the Arnold Arboretum 1872-1927)

	Abbott Lawrence Lowell c. 1920 Fogg Art Museum, Boston Charcoal on off-white laid paper 60.5 cm. x 45.5 cm., actual Commissioned by Harvard University, 1920, C67

	Sketchs for General Officers of the Great War 1920-1923 Natasha Essay Sketches and studies of: -General Cowans -Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig -Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby -Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan -Henry Seymour Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson -Henry Sinclair Horne, Baron Horne -John French, 1st Earl of Ypres -Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy -Louis Botha -Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell -Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Bt -William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood



	Paul Manship January 30, 1921 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Charcoal on pinkish brown wove paper 54 x 43.3 cm (21 1/4 x 17 1/16 in.) Inscriptions: [at lower left]: [for?] Manship / J.S. Sargent; [at lower right]: Jan 30. 1921; [on verso]: [sketches of ornament]; [at lower center]: portrait sketch of PM Bequest of Paul H. Manship, 1966 (66.70)

	Alice Runnels James (Mrs. William James) 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite pencil on paper 53.5 x 34.3 cm (21 1/16 x 13 1/2 in.) Gift of William James, 1977

	Renatta Borgatti 1921 Natasha Private collection ? Charcoal Size?

	Charles Woodbury 1921 Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery Oil on canvas. 71.4 x 41.8 cm (28 1/8 x 16 1/2 in.) Accession Number: 77.244

	Eleonora Randolph Sears 1921 Private collection Charcoal on paperboard 24 3/4 x 18 3/4 in Signed John S. Sargent (ul) and signed and dated John S. Sargent/1921 (ll)

	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Dome Ceiling 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Rotunda and Colonnade Murals and sculptures

	Architecture, Painting and Sculpture Protected by Athena from the Ravages of Time 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda mural Oil on canvas 320.36 x 261.3 cm (126 1/8 x 102 7/8 in.) Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund 21.10513

	Apollo and the Muses 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda mural Oil on canvas 283.21 x 428.62 cm (111 1/2 x 168 3/4 in.) Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund 21.10512

	Classic and Romantic Art 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda mural Oil on canvas 254.95 x 424.18 cm (100 3/8 x 167 in.) Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund 21.10514

	The Sphinx and Chimaera 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda mural Oil on canvas 302.6 x 234.3 cm (119 1/8 x 92 1/4 in.)

	Prometheus 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas Rotunda mural 94.6 x107.3 cm (37 1/4 x42 1/4 in.) Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and 1925 Picture Fund 21.10511

	Music 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas Rotunda mural 94.6 x107.3 cm (37 1/4 x42 1/4 in.) Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and 1925 Picture Fund 21.10509

	Ganymede and the Eagle 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas Rotunda mural 94.6 x107.3 cm (37 1/4 x42 1/4 in.) Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and 1925 Picture Fund 21.10508

	Astronomy 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda mural Oil on canvas 94.61 x 107.31 cm (37 1/4 x 42 1/4 in.) Boston: Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund 21.10510 (Black and white image)

	The Three Grace 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size?

	Eros and Psyche c. 1919-1920 Installed 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size?

	Dancing Figures c. 1919-1920 Installed 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size? Francis Bartlett Fund (Donation of 1912) 21.10501

	Aphrodite and Eros c. 1919-1920 Installed 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size? Francis Bartlett Fund (Donation of 1912) 21.10503

	Fame (Black and white image) c. 1919-1920 Installed 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size? Francis Bartlett Fund (Donation of 1912) 21.10504

	Satyr and Maenad (Black and white image) c. 1919-1920 Installed 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size? Francis Bartlett Fund (Donation of 1912) 21.10505

	Arion (Black and white image) c. 1919-1920 Installed 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size? Francis Bartlett Fund (Donation of 1912) 21.10506

	Achilles and Chiron (Black and white image) c. 1919-1920 Installed 1921 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda Bas-Relief Raised painted plaster Size? Francis Bartlett Fund (Donation of 1912) 21.10507

1920 (64 years old)
Year In Context

Still in America with his sister and niece, the first half of the year he works on the Museum of Fine Arts rotunda.

He helps Mrs. Hunter (painted her in 1898) sell her collection of art to Isabella Stewart Gardner for her museum.

April he makes donations of family memorabilia and dining room wallpaper to the Sargent House Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts -- which is a Museum dedicated to Sargent's ancestors.

He would continue to travel staying with friends in New England during the years '20-'22. On a friends yacht he paints watercolors (See Photo of Sargent painting)

May: Emily and Reine return to England.

June: parts of the MFA rotunda is installed.

July he sails back to England.

By August he begins Some General Officers of the Great War. Sargent makes a study painting of each general .

He exhibits at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

1921 (65 years old)
Year In Context

In January he sails alone for New York and while there he visits his old close friend Paul Helleu who had painted the ceiling decoration in New York's Grand Central Station in 1912. After a short stay, he travels to Boston to resume work on the MFA decorations: bas-relief, and oval panels.

June: he travels up to Montreal for a sitting of one of a generals for Some General Officers of the Great War.

By August both his sisters and niece Reine arrive in the States.

On October 20th, the decorations for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rotunda are unveiled.

He returns to London.

In November the trustees commission another set of murals to decorate the museum's stairwell. And Harvard University wants him to undertake panels for the Widener Memorial Library which he agrees.

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