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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.


U.S. Secretary of State John Hay 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).
LibraryFootnote 

 

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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LibraryFootnote 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)
       

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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