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American, Boston - "Sargent Home from Visit in Europe", 1922

American, Boston

"Noted Artist Landing in Boston Today: Sargent Home from Visit in Europe", 1922

Ink on paper , 36 x 11.1 cm (14 3/16 x 4 3/8 in.)

Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner regularly clipped and saved newspaper articles featuring her friends. This item about John Singer Sargent, who was introduced to Gardner by Henry James in 1886, describes a tense homecoming after a European tour. Beneath a candid photograph of the artist descending from an ocean liner, the article cites the controversy surrounding one of Sargent’s recent murals in the Boston Public Library. The caption notes that the mural, Synagogue, “has given offence to persons of the Jewish faith” for its allegorical representation of Judaism as a fumbling old woman.