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Memory impression of Mr. J. S. Sargent’s Boston Public Library decoration before going to America
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Memory impression of Mr. J. S. Sargent’s Boston Public Library decoration before going to America

Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874-1962 · 1915

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An interior view of artist John Singer Sargent’s Fulham Road studio in London as he developed panels for his mural commission at Boston Public Library. At lower right, a figure looks upward into the one-third-scale model of the library space that Sargent constructed. Pictured in the upper-left background is the "Heaven" panel, a lunette installed in Boston in 1916.

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