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 | Toning The Bell by Walter Shirlaw 1874 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Shirlaw, Walter | |
 | The Commode by Walter Gay 1905/12 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Gay, Walter | |
 | Landscape with Gate at Sunset by Hugh Huntington Howard Watercolor on ivory woven paper, laid down on gray woven paper Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Howard, Hugh Huntington | |
 | Still Life in Interior by Preston Dickinson 1920/22 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Dickinson, Preston |  Ownership History: The Downtown Gallery, New York; to private collection, New Rochelle, New York, about 1949-50 to 1999; consigned to Richard York Gallery, New York; sold to private collection, New York, 1999; consigned to Menconi & Schoelkopf, New York, 2001; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004. |
 | Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer by John Singer Sargent 1880 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Sargent, John Singer |
Mary
Anthony, the wife of Charles Gifford Dyer (1851-1912) American painter best
known for his landscpae paintings Italy, Egypt and
Syria.
Older than Sargent, Dyer had studied in Paris under Jacquesson de la Chevreuse and
had entered the Royal academy at Munich in 1871.
Dyer spent
most of his professional life between Munich and Paris with six... |
 | Venetian Glass Workers by John Singer Sargent 1880-82 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Sargent, John Singer |
In many of
Sargent’s Venetian Studies of 1880 and 1882 he shows Venetian women
stringing glass beads for the tourist trade. In a footnote of Linda Ayres
essay, she explains that what they are holding are long colored glass tubes.
These glass
tubes (also called cane) were probably made in Murano, then cut to bead size
and passed on to women... |
 | Madame Paul Escudier (1) by John Singer Sargent 1882 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Sargent, John Singer |
Ormond and
Kilmurray say in their book, Early Portraits (p.63), that not a lot is known
about this painting and its origin. In 1923 the painting was purchased by
Charles Deering, a close friend of Sargent.
Madame Paul
Escudier
1882
Notes:
This is a
new aquisition to the Art Institute as of 2008 (acquisition from (Saz)... |
 | Mrs. George Swinton (nee Elizabeth "'Elsie" Ebsworth) by John Singer Sargent 1897 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Sargent, John Singer |
From: "A Numerous and Fashionable
Audience: The Story of Elsie Swinton,"
by David Greer
Posted: Wed, 30 Oct 2002
Elizabeth
"'Elsie" Swinton (1874-1966), nee Ebsworth, was a prominent society
lady in Edwardian England, who in 1906 took the unusual step (for a person of
her social rank in those days) of becoming a professional singer,... |
 | The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy by John Singer Sargent 1907 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Sargent, John Singer |
Jane de
Glehn (1873-1961) painting with her husband Wilfrid (1870-1951) at the Fountain
at Villa Torlonia in Frascati, Italy.
Wilfrid de Glehn
Fountain
Frascati
1907
Married in
1904, both were often traveling companions of John's between 1905 and 1914 when
they all would visit such places as the south of France,... |
 | Twentieth Century Ruin by Alexander Brook 1932 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Brook, Alexander |
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