Gleason Public Library (Carlisle)

John Singer Sargent, edited by Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-280) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

John Singer Sargent

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40249099

edited by Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond

"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

Directors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- John Singer Sargent : a biographical sketch / Richard Ormond -- Sargent's art / Richard Ormond -- Sargent in public : on the Boston murals / Mary Crawford Volk -- Catalogue -- Chronology -- Select bibliography -- Index