Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article on the Sargent Murals which have lately been the center of much controversy, was written by G. H. Edgell, Professor of Fine Arts and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, for the Alumni Bulletin, and is reprinted from the issue of that magazine of November...
...recent "editorial" which the press quoted from the Harvard Crimson, to the effect that the custom of honoring the dead on Memorial Day is "wearisome," and that the Sargent murals in Widener Library are "offensive to humanity," is creating the usual impression--that this reflects the average Harvard undergraduate...
...unveiling of Mr. Sargent's paintings in the Widener Library was an event of great importance in the artistic history of the University. The two paintings fill the sunken panels at the right and left of the main doorway into the room of memorial photographs and the Widener collection. They are intended as a memorial to the students of Harvard University who lost their lives in the Great...
...subjects represented are the symbols of Death and Victory in the left panel and the coming of the Americans to Europe on the right. Happily, Mr. Sargent made no attempt at historical rendering and treated his scheme broadly from the decorative point of view. In the panel of the Coming of the Americans he has filled the space with a mighty column of American youths in uniform, slashing the composition boldly from right to left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries...
...Sargent is to be congratulated for solving so happily an extremely difficult problem. The khaki costume of the modern soldier lends itself to an orderly and interesting arrangement, and the necessity of filling two panels of rather difficult shapes with symbolic compositions, when no definite subjects were suggested to the artists, required the highest order of imaginative creation. Though individuals may criticize details of the composition and symbolism, none can deny that the artist has been extremely successful in his main purpose, which was to produce a great decorative composition aptly conceived and executed from the point of view...