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![]() | Santa Maria della Salute by John Singer Sargent 1904 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | ![]()
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 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | ![]()
Photo The Bridge of Sighs
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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![]() | Melon Boats by John Singer Sargent c. 1905 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | |
![]() | In a Lacatine Port by John Singer Sargent 1905-06 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | |
![]() | Bedouin Mother by John Singer Sargent 1905 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | |
![]() | Arab Gypsies in a Tent by John Singer Sargent 1905-06 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | |
![]() | Bedouins by John Singer Sargent 1905 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | ![]()
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 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | |
![]() | Gourds by John Singer Sargent c. 1905-08 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | |
![]() | Mending a Sail by John Singer Sargent 1905 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer |
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