Preview | Description | Artist | Notes |
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The Old Westover House by Edward Lamson Henry 1869 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Henry, Edward Lamson | ||
Poor Artist's Cupboard by Charles Bird King c. 1815 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | King, Charles Bird | ||
The House of Representatives by Samuel F.B. Morse 1822 - 1823 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Morse, Samuel F.B. | Before achieving fame as the inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph and the Morse code in the 1840s, Samuel F. B. Morse was best known as a major painter and as president of the National Academy of Design in New York City. His stock-in-trade as an artist was romantic portraiture. But he also painted two extraordinary subject pictures, The Gallery... | |
The House Maid by William McGregor Paxton 1910 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Paxton, William McGregor | Description: Interior scene depicting a a young woman turned in profile to the left, a feather duster held under her left arm, and her attention directed toward a book she holds in her hands. On the table beside her are a number of Chinese pots, a Chinese figurine, and a box of stationery with the lid tilted open. | |
Campo dei Frari, Venice by John Singer Sargent 1880 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Campo means
public square or space, so this is the courtyard right off the canal facing the
church Frari.
Sargent's
early watercolors can be significantly different in tone to his later work.
Generally you see careful brushwork
and tight, small, and much more controlled washes of color than his later work.
He often, but not always, used this... | |
Mrs. Henry White by John Singer Sargent 1883 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | ||
Portrait Sketch of a Seated Woman by John Singer Sargent c. 1890-1900 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
The NYU Grey Gallery had an exhibition of this drawing,
among others, August 31 – October 30, 1999 called "John Singer
Sargent, Draughtsman: Works from the Corcoran Gallery of Art". The image
online at NYU, I believe is inverted.
Special thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, Maryland, a
friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me... | |
Study of Drapery for Freize of the Prophets by John Singer Sargent c. 1892 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | ||
Study of Ezekiel for Frieze of the Prophets by John Singer Sargent c. 1891-92 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | ||
Head of Olimpio Fusco by John Singer Sargent c. 1905-1915 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
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