Exhibitions

John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987

Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005

Forum

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.