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John Singer Sargent's Venice: on the canals.
Mary Newbold Singer Sargent (1826-1906) required that her young son John complete one drawing every day as he accompanied her on their morning outings. She and her husband, Fitzwilliam (1820-1889), had decided to homeschool their children, and, aside from the three Rs, Mary insisted that art training was essential, so it was only natural that John work with her while she recorded in watercolor the places they visited. "She ruled that no matter how many sketches were begun each day one must be finished," Sargent's cousin Mary Hale wrote in her memoir of the artist. (1) Mary Sargent's passion for travel and habit of painting watercolors of the surrounding countryside proved ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) April 14, 2001 700+ words
...Watercolours in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent by Stephanie L Herdrich and H Barbara Weinberg...essay by Marjorie Shelley (Yale: pounds 60) and John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist by Trevor Fairbrother (Yale: pounds...
- Conservation experts clean and restore the MFA's prized John Singer Sargent...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Palumbo, Mary Jo June 23, 1999 700+ words
...restore the ceiling murals by John Singer Sargent that adorn the museum's grand...for Sunday's opening of "John Singer Sargent," a major retrospective of...Shapiro Family Foundation. "John Singer Sargent" was organized by the Tate...
- Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the...
- Magazine article from: Church History Siedell, Daniel A. September 1, 2000 700+ words
...Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion...Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion...Promey's thesis is that John Singer Sargent, one of the important artists...
- Sargent's murals for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.(John Singer...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Troyen, Carol July 1, 1999 700+ words
...golden ochre and blue of [John Singer Sargent's] murals. The rumble continued...September. The exhibition John Singer Sargent, which has already been seen...The Boston presentation of John Singer Sargent is further distinguished by...
- John Singer Sargent. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art Institute...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman December 13, 1986 700+ words
John Singer Sargent Visiting the galleries of Baroque painting at the Metropolitan Museum...pressure and face accusations of shallowness and embourgeoisement. John Singer Sargent was among the unabashed Rubenses of art: urbane, polyglot, at...
- Visual Arts; John Singer Sargent comes home again _ in four exhibitions; The...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Silver, Joanne May 21, 1999 700+ words
...local institutions present exhibitions of the work of John Singer Sargent. The painter of the Museum of Fine Arts' beloved...Stewart Gardner - will be shown at the MFA's "John Singer Sargent," on display from June 27 through Sept. 26. In...
- Sargent promoting Sargent. (John Singer Sargent's art exhibit)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt June 1, 1997 700+ words
John Singer Sargent's meteoric success coincided with the development of the international...September 7. Entitled Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent, it comprises some thirty-five paintings dating between 1877 and...
- Portrait fo the artist; John Singer Sargent and Hub left their mark on each...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Palumbo, Mary Jo June 25, 1999 700+ words
The great 19th century painter John Singer Sargent may have lived in Europe, but it was friends in...connections this summer with the major retrospective "John Singer Sargent" at the MFA through Sept. 26 and related shows...