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Bedouin Women 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Bedouin Women (1) c.1891 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Bedouin Women Carrying Water 1891 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Bedouins 1905 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
The power
of Sargent's watercolors is in the complexity of what matters -- the wonderful
faces of these Bedouins looking right at us. And the lush flow of color in what
doesn't matter and what our eyes don't normally pick up at first impression --
the flowing drape of their clothes. In a single painting, Sargent shows us the
the whole range and... | GA | igrkio | |
Bedroom c. 1880-82 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
An early
watercolor sometime between 1880 and 1882. It is probably his bedroom on one of
his travels.
For
discussion of, see
View from a Window
Genoa, Italy
1911
| GA | igrkio | |
Behind the Salute 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Bent Legs and Feet, for "Gog and Magog," Boston Public Library c. 1895-1916 |
See
finished mural
Notes:
Bibliography:
Alvin L.
Clark, Jr., Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies,
brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12, no. 45
Exhibition History:
Drawing on
Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art
Museums,... | GA | igrkio | |
Berles-au-Bois, France 1918 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Betty Wertheimer 1908 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. |
Ena and Betty, Daughters of
Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer
1901
Betty was
featured in a double portrait with her sister seven years previously.
From: Hugh Wilding
<h st jw @ line one.net>
Date:
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Dear
Natasha,
I was
re-visiting [your site] recently and I noticed that you stated... | GA | igrkio | |
Betty Wertheimer Salaman (Mrs. Arthur Ricketts) c. 1910-1912 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. |
Note:
Special
thanks to Tony Wearing, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for finding this image
down on the internet
Exhibitions History
SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION TRAVELLING EXHIBITION SERVICE, Washington, D.C. "Artists and
Models: Portraits from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden." TOUR:
ROBERT HULL FLEMING MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT,... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent