Motorcycle [recto], 1918

Not on View

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 17.78 × 13.02 cm (7 × 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2015.19.648.a

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

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

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: 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.

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.