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Sargent watercolors at MFA, Houston
Just a note for those in the Houston, Texas area that a beautiful exhibition of over 100 watercolors by one of the greatest masters of the medium, John Singer Sargent, is still at the Museum of Fine Arts until May 26, 2014. I saw the version of the exhibit that was at the Brooklyn Museum…
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Portraits of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon: Zorn vs. Sargent
Though I’ve never had the chance to see the original in person (it’s not always on display), I’ve admired this portrait of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (née Virginia Purdy) by Anders Zorn in the high-resolution images on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. The Met’s description of the painting is brief, and mentions that both…
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Sargent’s portrait of Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent Today is “Presidents Day” here in the U.S. — originally “Washington’s Birthday”, but now an all-purpose Washington and Lincoln birthday holiday, marked primarily by aggressively advertised sales of mattresses and cars. (Maybe that says something about U.S. presidents, I don’t know.) Though perhaps not one of Sargent’s most memorable…
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The Inscrutable Eye: Sargent watercolors at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
For those in the Boston area who missed the show of Sargent Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Art, (which I mentioned here on
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Sargent's Alligators
In response to my recent post about Rembrandt’s elephants, there were suggestions that perhaps alligators were not getting their proper representation as subjects for great artists. In return, I give you John Singer Sargent’s beautiful watercolor of Muddy Alligators, and some related drawings. Original is in the Worcester Art Museum; slightly larger version on WikiPaintings.…
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More on Sargent watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum
As I reported back in May (don’t say I didn’t give you advance notice on this one), there is a once-in-a-lifetime show of ninety-three of John Singer Sargent’s dazzling watercolors, supplemented with nine beautiful oils, at the Brooklyn Museum until July 28, 2013. The show then moves to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where…