1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Sargent, John Singer

SARGENT, JOHN SINGER (1856-), Anglo-American artist (see ), exhibited in 1910 the open-air paintings &ldquo;Albanian Olive Gatherers,&rdquo; &ldquo;Glacier Streams,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Garden at Corfu&rdquo; and &ldquo;Vespers.&rdquo; In 1911 appeared &ldquo;A Waterfall&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Loggia.&rdquo; His portrait of Henry James was exhibited in 1914, and was one of the pictures damaged in that year by suffragette attacks. He contributed in 1915 a blank canvas to a Red Cross sale at Christie's, which was secured by Sir Hugh Lane just before his death for £10,000. In Dec. 1916 the third series of his mural decorations in the Boston Public Library was unveiled. This concluding series is entitled &ldquo;The Theme of the Madonna.&rdquo; The first series (1895) depicts &ldquo;The Judaic Development&rdquo;; the second (1903), &ldquo;The Dogma of the Redemption.&rdquo; The theme of the whole is &ldquo;Judaism and Christianity.&rdquo; In 1917 he was elected a trustee of the Tate Gallery. During the World War he made a number of paintings of scenes on the western front; and his large picture &ldquo;Gassed&rdquo; in the Royal Academy in 1919 attracted great attention. In Nov. 1921 his decorations in the rotunda of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts were unveiled.