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 | Mountain Fire by John Singer Sargent c. 1903-1908 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer | 
Notes:
Special
thanks to Todd Baldini, of Colorado, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for help on
this painting.
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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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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 | 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... |
 | Dolce Far Niente by John Singer Sargent c. 1907 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Patricia Duggleby
p du gg leby@accesscomm.ca
Date: Oct
2, 2005
My
great-grandmother, Margaret O'Regan [later Margaret Beaton], was a companion to
John Singer Sargent's mother in London for the year before she died. After Mrs.
Sargent died, she stayed on as companion to Emily. She remembered modelling for
Sargent . . . in a... |
 | Zuleika by John Singer Sargent c. 1907 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer |
Zuleika
(zoo-LAY-ka) is of Persian and indirectly biblical origins with the meaning:
"Brilliant Beauty".
Though the
name is never directly used in the bible, it appeared in later retellings of
the story of Joseph and is meant to be the wife of Joseph's employer "Potiphar" - the Captain of the Bodyguards to the
Pharaoh of Egypt. The Egyptian's... |
 | Aaron Augustus Healy by John Singer Sargent 1907 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer |
A. Augustus
Healy was president of the Brooklyn Institute for 25 years during a very
formative time in its development. The Insitute was the forerunner of the
Brooklyn Museum.
McKim, White and Mead,
Architects
The Museum of the Brooklyn
Institute of of Arts and Sciences, now known as the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
1893
... |
 | A Tramp by John Singer Sargent After 1900 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
See the The
Brooklyn Museum, NY
See the
year in review 1908
Forum:
. . . a
consumate work of portrait art: the excellent handling of an unforgiving medium
combined with the compassionate portrayal of this world weary man... |
 | Haying, Conway Meadows by Albert Bierstadt 1864 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Bierstadt, Albert | |
 | Cattle in a Pool by John Carleton Wiggins 1883 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Wiggins, John Carleton |
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