"Sargent Home from Visit in Europe"
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Date1922
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions36 x 11.1 cm (14 3/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsArchival Material
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.009960
eMuseum ID725874
Previous NumberS.G.Sar.4.2.2
Previous NumberS.G.Sar.4.2.1-3.001
EmbARK ObjectID24746
TMS Source ID9058
Last Updated8/14/24
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Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner regularly clipped and saved newspaper articles featuring her friends. This item about John Singer Sargent, who was introduced to Gardner by Henry James in 1886, describes a tense homecoming after a European tour. Beneath a candid photograph of the artist descending from an ocean liner, the article cites the controversy surrounding one of Sargent’s recent murals in the Boston Public Library. The caption notes that the mural, Synagogue, “has given offence to persons of the Jewish faith” for its allegorical representation of Judaism as a fumbling old woman.
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (bottom): Tom Fox in the background
