Boston Public Library Arts Department collection of John Singer Sargent clippings and other ephemera
Collection
Call Number: MS.SC.0001
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings and other ephemera outlining Sargent's work and exhibitions. Topics include murals at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Harvard Widener Library, portraiture, religious imagery, Boston Public Library murals, and biographical information.
Dates
- 1896 - 1939
Creator
- Boston Public Library (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Items in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. In most cases, the Boston Public Library does not hold the copyright to the items in our collections. It is the sole responsibility of the user to make their own determination about what types of usage might be permissible under U.S. and international copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an American artist known for portrait painting. Sargent was considered a prolific artist, producing over 900 paintings and nearly 2000 watercolors in addition to studies and sketches. Later in his career, Sargent undertook the commission of large mural sequences for Widener Library at Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Boston Public Library.
Extent
1.5 Cubic Feet (3 boxes (1 oversize))
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Collection is arranged in three groups: Clippings, Reproductions, and Correspondence. The groups are roughly arranged by subject, assigned by Boston Public Library Fine Arts Department staff members.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Compiled by Fine Arts librarians at the Boston Public Library, circa 1960-1980, from local and national news publications.
Processing Information
The original order of the collection has been maintained, with materials rehoused in archivally sound enclosures.
Processing Information
This electronic finding aid is transcribed from legacy data. In many cases, transcriptions were not verified against collection materials at the time of transcription. As a result, this finding aid could be incomplete and might only reflect a partial understanding of the material.
Statement on harmful description
Archival description reflects the biases of time periods and cultures in which it was created and may include direct quotations or descriptions that use inappropriate or harmful language. Creator provided descriptions may be maintained in order to preserve the context in which the collection was created and/or used. Legacy description and potentially offensive content may be made available online until a collection can be reprocessed because the access that they provide to primary source materials is uniquely valuable to the research community at large. Our efforts to repair outdated descriptions and to describe our collections more equitably are iterative and ongoing.
- Artists -- United States -- 19th century
- Exhibitions -- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Mural painting and decoration -- American -- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Mural painting and decoration -- American -- New England -- 19th century
- Portrait painting, American
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 -- Exhibitions
- newspaper clippings
Creator
- Boston Public Library (Organization)
- Title
- Boston Public Library Arts Department collection of John Singer Sargent clippings and other ephemera
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Eve Griffin
- Date
- 2021 August
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
About this library
Part of the Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections Repository
