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Santa Maria della Salute

by John Singer Sargent

1904
Transparent watercolor with small touches of opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white, thick, rough-textured wove paper
46.2 x 58.4 cm (18 3/16 x 23 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singernotes
On the Steps of the Salute  c.1906  Watercolor The Santa Maria della Salute is one of the significant buildings of Venice (thumbnail). Sargent painted it a number of times, but never full-on or complete. He characterized his paintings in Venice as "snapshots" and wanted very much to capture the feel of the place...
Bridge of Sighs

by John Singer Sargent

1904
Watercolor on paper
25.4 x 35.6 m (10 x 14 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singernotes
Photo The Bridge of Sighs Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
Melon Boats

by John Singer Sargent

c. 1905
Watercolor on paper
13.81 x 19.75 in.

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singer 
In a Lacatine Port

by John Singer Sargent

1905-06
Watercolor and pencil on paper
30.6 x 46 cm (12 1/16 x 18 1/8 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singer 
Bedouin Mother

by John Singer Sargent

1905
Watercolor on paper
45.41 x 30.48 cm (17.88 x 12 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singer 
Arab Gypsies in a Tent

by John Singer Sargent

1905-06
Watercolor heightened with white on paper
30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singer 
Bedouins

by John Singer Sargent

1905
Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on off-white, thick, rough-textured wove paper
45.7 x 30.5 cm (18 x 12 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singernotes
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...
Black Tent

by John Singer Sargent

1905-1906
Watercolor on paper
30 x 45.42 cm (11.81 x 17.88 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singer 
Gourds

by John Singer Sargent

c. 1905-08
Watercolor on paper
35.6 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singer 
Mending a Sail

by John Singer Sargent

1905
Watercolor on paper
11 x 13.81 in.

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Sargent, John Singer 
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