Violet Sargent by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Violet Sargent

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · Modeled 1890, cast c. 1908

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago and Miami, FL, 1909 [“V. Sargent ready for delivery” dated Sept. 14, 1909, on list of works purchased by Charles Deering, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Papers, box 5, folder 25, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH]; by descent to his daughters Marion McCormick (born Marion Deering; Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, 1886–1965), Chicago, and Barbara Danielson (born Barbara Deering; Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1888–1982), Groton, MA, 1927; Marion McCormick, after 1936 [“Violet Sargent (relief)” on Charles Deering collection list; collection list dates to 1936 or later; ownership not yet designated between daughters; copy in institutional archives]; by descent to her son Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago, 1965; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2522/john-singer-sargent-and-chicago-s-gilded-age"><em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age</em></a>, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 88.

Literature

Published references

  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 267–270, cat. 131.
  • Annelise K. Madsen, et al., <em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 102, 135–36, 158, 160, 207, cat. 88, fig. 108 (ill.).

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