Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very much surprised by the patronizing release made to The Boston American by Mr. Potter on the CRIMSON editorial concerning the Sargent murals. Everyone recognizes that as works of art they are disgraceful. Many critics feel that Sargent was a second-rate derivative artist throughout his life, but even his advocates admit that his last period was a long retrogression and that he reached the lowest depths in the Widener Library pictures. If Mr. Potter still has doubts on the subject, he might ask any member of the Fine Arts Department; even those who are most sympathetic toward Sargent...
...course, they should be taken down, if only to preserve a distinguished reputation, but things like that aren't done. However, as Sargent was unable to use a true fresco technique, regardless of what Mr. Potter may do, the pictures will soon decompose. Meanwhile they harmonize quite admirably with the vulgarity of the whole building. Perhaps this is what Mr. Potter meant when he said, "They have their place." John Walker...
When the recent editorial on the Sargent Murals appeared, I became really enthusiastic. I felt that it was about as bold a support of real truth and justice as has appeared in the CRIMSON for some time...
...press clipping printed below in quotation of one of the assistants in the library is hardly as conclusive as its manner would indicate. The CRIMSON of course has no pretension of passing an esthetic judgement on the Sargent murals, but the weight of opinion from such critics as Walter Pach quoted in these columns earlier in the year, coupled with the extreme reluctance of nearly all the Fine Arts department to comment officially on the paintings should justify the recent stand of this paper on the artistic phases of the controversy...
...recent editorial attack the Harvard Crimson on the mural paintings by John Singer Sargent which adorn the walls of the Widener Memorial Library is just a "foolish, boyish article", and official Harvard intends to ignore...