Motorcycle [recto]
1918
Artist, American, 1856 - 1925
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist)
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Dimensions
sheet: 17.78 × 13.02 cm (7 × 5 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.648.a
Associated Artworks
Motorcycle [verso]
John Singer Sargent
1918
Artwork history & notes
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
Exhibition History
1926
Exhibition of the Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy, London, England, 1926
1984
John Singer Sargent, Duke University Art Museum, Durham, North Carolina, 1984
1999
"Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999
2000
John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 2000-2001
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. 112, no. 747.
Nygren, Edward J. John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983, p. 98, no. 85.
Inscriptions
upper center in graphite: blue reflection along handle; upper right in graphite: light; lower left in graphite: Peronne Oct. / 1918; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: J.S.24.
Wikidata ID
Q64584106