John Singer Sargent / by Carter Ratcliff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratcliff, Carter.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925.

Sargent, John Singer.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Abbeville Press, [1982]

Summary:

The remarkable portraits for which John Singer Sargent is most famous are only one aspect of a career that included landscapes, watercolors, figure subjects, and murals. Even within portraiture, his style ranged from bold experiments to studied formality. And the subjects of his paintings were as varied as his styles, including the leaders of fashionable society, rural laborers, city streets, remote mountains, and the front lines of World War I. This book surveys and evaluates the extraordinary range of Sargent's work, and reproduces 155 of his paintings in color. It accompanies a spectacular international exhibition - the first major retrospective of the artist's career since the memorial exhibitions that followed his death." "Richard Ormond presents a biographical sketch and, in a second essay, reviews Sargent's development as an artist. Mary Crowford Volk explores his thirty-year involvement with painting murals - in particular the works at the Boston Public Library and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that Sargent regarded as his greatest achievement."--Jacket.

Contents:

Prologue : point of view

A nomadic sort of life

A student in Paris

Independence

The scandalous Madame X

Starting over in England

A critical success

Patriarchs and pagans: the Boston murals

Master of the modern portrait

"Sargentolatry" and a reluctant idol

The end of an era

Epilogue : the Sitwell portrait

Appendix : selected writings on Sargent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is seventh printing.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has newspaper clipping "Collection Contradictions London and Dublin share the 39 paintings given to each, at different times, by Sir Hugh Lane" from The New York Times November 8, 1986 laid in at front.

Other Format:

Online version: Ratcliff, Carter. John Singer Sargent.

ISBN:

089659307X :

9780896593077

0896596737

9780896596733

OCLC:

8431972