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Apr 24, 2024 · The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit - Tetragrammaton. JOHN SINGER SARGENT, 1882. OIL ON CANVAS. Not as much a portrait of girls as a portrait of childhood, Sargent’s most psychologically compelling work moves between beautiful and unnerving with each view.
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May 9, 2024 · In Boston, while working on murals, Sargent employed a Black male model, about whose life and experiences an exhibition, “Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent,” was mounted in 2020 by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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5 days ago · European-American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is remembered for his impressive, large-scale portraits of British, French, and American socialites, intellectuals, politicians, and other luminaries. Sargent’s watercolors, however, are much less known.
May 5, 2024 · The woman depicted in the painting is Sargent’s 18-year-old niece, Rose-Marie Ormond (1893-1918), the daughter of his sister, Violet Sargent Ormond. Rose-Marie was a favorite subject of Sargent because she was not only a beloved niece but because she had an energetic and strong character that Sargent found charming.
May 13, 2024 · The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (originally titled Portraits d'enfants) is a painting by John Singer Sargent. The painting depicts four young girls, the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, in their family's Paris apartment.
May 11, 2024 · Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent's greatest images. At its unveiling, one prominent critic praised Sargent's stunning originality, while another dismissed the canvas as "four corners and a void.".
5 days ago · In John Singer Sargent’s Miss Eliza Wedgewood and Miss Sargent Sketching from 1908, Emily Sargent is depicted at her easel. Sargent lived a vibrant and creative existence and as the frequent traveling companion of her brother John, journeyed around the world.
