Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University has suffered a great loss in the death of John Singer Sargent Art. D. Hon. '16, said Dean G. H. Edgell '09 discussing Mr. Sargent's recent death, in a statement to the CRIMSON...
...Sargent, long connected unofficially with the Department of Fine Arts and known to the University particularly for his decorations in Widener, and his portraits of President Eliot and President Lowell, long had an intense interest in art in the University and deep appreciation of its viewpoint...
...death of John Singer Sargent, Harvard has suffered a real loss. He has, of course, done important work for the University. One thinks immediately of the decorations in the Widener Library and of the portraits of President Eliot and President Lowell. What is less known and really more important is the constant interest which Mr. Sargent had in the University and his sympathy with the University point of view...
...death of the foremost American painter, John Singer Sargent, is the greatest artistic loss which the world has suffered in many years. To Harvard there comes also the sense of personal bereavement, for his relations with the University, which awarded him an honorary doctor's degree, have been intimate and his interest constant. Harvard, like America, can not regard his great achievements with any particular feeling of appropriation. It can lay no claim upon his distinctly universal artistry. It can only remember with pleasure that Sargent the man was in close sympathy with the University and that among other testaments...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge, after attending divine service, went aboard the Mayflower. Fellow passengers overnight: Senator Wadsworth of New York, Secretaries Jardine and Davis, Attorney General Sargent...