Sargent's murals for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - John Singer Sargent - Cover Story

Magazine Antiques, July, 1999 by Carol Troyen

14 These are loutrophoros amphorae, often awarded to young athletes and thus symbolizing ideal manhood. I would like to thank John J. Herrmann Jr. for this identification.

15 In the Pitti Palace, Florence.

16 In the Palazzo Pallavicini, Rome.

17 In the Vatican Museum.

18 In the Naples Museum.

19 David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956), p. 53.

20 Quoted in Sylvester Baxter, "Francis Davis Millet: An Appreciation," Art and Progress, vol. 3 (July 1912), p. 640.

21 Quoted in "Sargent's Repudiation of 'Modern' Art," Literary Digest, November 26, 1921, p. 27.

22 Christian Science Monitor, October 31, 1921.

23 "Making of a Decoration," p. 14.

24 Quoted by Ralph Curtis in a letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner, December 5, 1921 (archives of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).

25 "Sargent's Art," p. 40.

26 John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts (1877; Smith, Elder and Company, London, 1911), p. 3.

27 See Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent and America, p. 262.

28 [Royal Cortissoz], introduction to Exposition d'art americain: Oeuvres de John S. Sargent... (Association Franco-Americaine d'Expositions de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris, 1923), p. 16.

29 Preserved Smith, "Sargent's New Mural Decorations," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 71 (March 1922), p. 381.

CAROL TROYEN is the associate curator of American paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.