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Carnation Lily Lily Rose 1885-86 |
John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005
From: Sarah Wickham
(sa rah. wick ham@rncm.ac.uk)
Date: 6/8/2004
I'm the archivist at Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK). We have a pencil sketch by Sargent of a former violin student, Lena Kontorovich. It's not an amazing piece of art but...
(. . . ) I'm very attached to Sargent personally: my step-great-grandfather is depicted in Sargent's Garden Study of the Vickers Children and a step cousin was interested in tracing the picture's provenance -- this was brilliant: very many thanks.
Subject: Major Paintings
From: Crazy Duckie1231@aol.com
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003
[I think this should be one of your major paintings because] this one has children in . . . the fields . . . and I feel that it represents the growth of life, like the children are young but the flowers are grown, like they will one day. I had to do and interpretation of a painting and [this] was a wonderful one.