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Indepth Arts News:
"John Singer Sargent Beyond the Portrait Studio: Paintings, Drawings, and
Watercolors from the Collection"
2000-06-06 until 2000-09-24
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY,
USA
One of the most acclaimed American artists of his
generation, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
achieved international recognition as a painter of
society portraits by the mid-1880s. From the very
start of his career, however, he also was attracted
to subjects of everyday life. Despite the great
demand on both sides of the Atlantic for Sargent's
portraits, he declined most commissions after about
1905 and dedicated himself increasingly to
travel—not only for its own sake, but in connection
with important American mural commissions—and
produced a great number of brilliant works. About
110 of Sargent's compelling oils, watercolors, and
drawings—all from the extensive holdings of The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many of them
seldom seen by the public—are on view in John
Singer Sargent Beyond the Portrait Studio:
Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from the
Collection.
These works illuminate episodes in Sargent's
career, early to late, as he studied and sought
inspiration outside the portrait studio. The
exhibition has been organized to commemorate the
seventy-fifth anniversary of Sargent's death and the
fiftieth anniversary of the gift of numerous works
by his sister Mrs. Francis Ormond, and also to
celebrate the publication of American Drawings and
Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
John Singer Sargent. The Museum's spring
Bulletin is also devoted to Sargent and the
Metropolitan.
The exhibition and its accompanying publications
are made possible by the Marguerite and Frank A.
Cosgrove Jr. Fund.
IMAGE:
Young Woman in Black Skirt
1880-1882. John Singer Sargent
(1856-1925). Watercolor and
graphite on white wove paper. Gift
of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950
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