John Singer Sargent's Studies of Quarry Workers, Carrara (8)
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Studies of Quarry Workers with Ropes
John Singer Sargent -- American painter
1911
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Graphite on off-white wove paper (recto and verso)
25.3 cm. x 36.5 cm., actual
Inscribed: u.r., red-brown ink: 10
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.23.10
Jpg: Harvard

Studies of Quarry Workers, Carrara
 Index
 


Workman at Carrara 
c. 1911 

Notes:

Bibliography:

Sue Welsh Reed and Carol Troyen, Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1993), p. 171, catalogue no. 82/83, fig. 2, reproduced in b/w

Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, verso repr. p. 28

Provenance
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1911, To his sisters, Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, at his death 1925.

Sargent, Emily, and Mrs. Francis Ormond (Owner). From their brother, the artist, at his death 1925, Gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum 1937.

 
 

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