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Sargent's Italy. (Current and Coming).
John Singer Sargent was born in Italy to expatriate American parents, and it was to Italy that he returned again and again to paint luscious landscapes, somber interiors, evocative genre scenes, and penetrating portraits. The various locales where he painted, many off the beaten path, continued to be a source of inspiration throughout his long career. An exhibition that delves into this subject is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from February 2 to May 11. The show is entitled Sargent and Italy, and after it closes in California it travels to the Denver Art Museum, where it may be seen from June 28 through September 21. The exhibition comprises more than seventy-five oil and watercolor paintings ranging from early works executed in Naples and on Caprito those painted in Venice, the Alps, Carrara, San Vigilio on Lake Garda, Florence, and Rome.
In 1878 Sargent traveled to the island of Capri, where he fell in with a colony of painters. He painted more than one picture of a local girl named Rosina Ferram whom he described as "a magnificent type, about seventeen years of age, her complexion a rich nut-brown, with a mass of blue-black hair; very beautiful, and of an Arab type." He not only painted her in repose but also dancing on a ...
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