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AT-00001909Violet Sargent
Inscriptions
Inscribed in wreath upper right: "Violet Sargent" Signed on bench:"A ST G / MDCCCLXXXX / FECIT"
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 88.
Publications
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 267–270, cat. 131. Annelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 102, 135–36, 158, 160, 207, cat. 88, fig. 108 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848–1907)
- Date
- Modeled 1890, cast c. 1908
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 127 × 87 cm (50 × 34 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- New Hampshire
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Brooks McCormick
- Accession no.
- 1976.685
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