A selection of over 80 works designed to present the full scope of the artist'a paintings including portraits.
The collotype reproduces the charcoal drawing Sketch for Architecture, Painting and Sculpture (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, rotunda): Figure under Sculpture (21.2517). one of fifty mural-related drawings that Sargent donated to the ...
A gallery of superb portraits in pencil, pastels, and charcoal. Virtuoso display of technical skill and intuitive eye of noted American portrait painter.
John Singer Sargent
Violet Ormond to Francis [Henry] Taylor, London, November 21, I949, Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, refers to a letter “of about a fortnight ago” to which she had not received a reply. Taylor, director of the Metropolitan from I940 ...
At seventeen, Sargent was describedas "willful, curious, determined and strong" (after his mother) yet shy, generous, ... Hebecame both a valuable friend and Sargent's primary connection with the American artists abroad.
24 Henrs James, "John S. Sargent," Harper'* \e* Monthly Inyiifiwi, 75 (October 1887): 689. 2 v In this regard, Sargent brings to mind Edward Hopper, who also inventoried his surroundings. He told Alfred Barr. director of the Museum of ...
... more prevalent and much stronger than mere contiguity , for they presented the Salon of 1882 with its two most notorious paintings : Manet's Bar aux Folies - Bergère ( 1882 ; Courtauld Institute , London ) and Sargent's El Jaleo .
The water - colour was almost certainly a gift from the artist to his devoted friend Alice Barnard ( 1847-1918 ) . He had painted her twice at Broadway , Worcestershire , in 1885 ( see Early Portraits , nos .
Adelson, Warren, “John Singer Sargent and the 'New Painting,'” in Stanley Olson, Warren Adelson, and Richard Ormond, Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist ...
Insightful essays by the world's leading experts enhance this book and introduce readers to the full sweep of Sargent's accomplishments in the medium, in works that delight the eye as well as challenge our understanding of this prodigiously ...