Studies for "Gassed", 1918-1919

Not on View

Medium

charcoal on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47.63 × 61.6 cm (18 3/4 × 24 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.650

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: J.S.307

Provenance

Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Violet Sargent Ormond (sisters of the artist), Surrey, England; National Gallery (now known as the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, DC, 1929, left in storage at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Ormond, Violet Sargent
Sargent, Emily
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Exhibition History

1928: Exhibition of Drawings by John Singer Sargent, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1928

1983: John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, pp. 29, 111, fig. 20, no. 99, repro

1999: "Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999, fig. 7, repro

2018: Sargent "Gassed", National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Maryland, 29 Jan - 24 May 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1967: Gross, Ellen, and James Harithas. Drawings by John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Alhambra, California: Borden, 1967.

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 115, no. 761.