John Singer Sargent's Man Reading (2)
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Man Reading (2)
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
c. 1910
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
34.9 cm. x 53.5 cm., actual
Incription: brown ink, l.r.: John S. Sargent 
Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.315
Jpg: Harvard University Art Museums
 
 
 
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Bibliography
Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925; a conversation piece (New York, NY, 1941), p. 59, repr.

David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 92, Check List of Sargent's Portraits

American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge MA, 1972), no. 117, repr.

Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge MA, 1977), fig. 14 (detail), repr., cat. no. 55, p. 46, 47, 108

John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated

Stephanie Herdrich and H. Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (New York NY, 2000), pp. 308-309, under no. 283

Provenance 
Scott and Fowles (Dealer)., Sold to Grenville L. Winthrop Apr 3 1922. 

Exhibition
 
American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
 

 
 

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