John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)
Nationality: American
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
John Singer Sargent was born in Florence to American parents. As a child he moved throughout Europe, living in Nice Rome, and Dresden at times. He received formal painting training in 1870's in France and Italy. Sargent painted landscapes but was most recognized for his portraiture. Sargent painted alongside Monet at Giverny, using the aged artist as a subject for one of his pieces. He settled in London in 1885 after a unfavorable encounter with the French news press. He was commissioned as a decorative artist for public buildings in 1910 and served as a war artist from 1914 to 1918.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: 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 stu...
Seattle Art Museum: John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent is curated at SAM by Trevor Fairbrother, Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern Art, and will be on view in SAM�s Special Exhibition Galleries Dec. 14, 2000�March 18, 2001. Fairbrother is an internationally recognized scholar...
Museum of Fine Arts Boston: John Singer Sargent
In Boston, visitors will be able to view Sargents famed murals in the MFAs upper rotunda and stairwell; they were the last works the artist completed before his ...
Columbia Museum of Art: Masters of the American Watercolor
A celebrated portraitist in the medium of oil, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) adopted watercolor as his preferred painting medium while traveling throughout Europe and America in the first years of the twentieth century. Two of the works feature...
Clark Art Institute of Art: Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930
The rich history of this American Orientalism will be the subject of Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930, a traveling exhibition organized by the Sterling and ...
San Diego Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home:
Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections to suggest ways in which the American Impressionists responded to various aspects of the city and subu...
Frye Art Museum: Here I am - What We See and Think We Know
The Frye Art Museum's newest exhibition, Here I Am! Passages in Portraiture, allows you to look at some old friends and new acquaintances to come to your own definition. According to Debra Byrne, curator, "The magic of portraiture can be pegge...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: American Watercolors
The exhibition ranges from John James Audubon to Brice Marden and includes such masters of the watercolor as ...
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The American impressionists were among the most thoroughly trained, widely traveled and cosmopolitan painters in the history of our nations art. Many artists ...
National Gallery: Americans in Paris
Highlights include Whistler's 'White Girl' from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Sargent's astonishing painting of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and his notorious 'Madame X' from the Metropol...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950
The period from 1875 to 1950 saw the status of the watercolor shift dramatically. Works on paper until that time usually served only as studies or preparatory works for finished oil paintings, but beginning in the late 19th century, drawings and...
National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Mus�e des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and R�union des Mus�es Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Rebecca Ibel Gallery: Carl Palazzolo: Dopo Firenze
An extremely deft painter, Palazzolo almost obsessively reworks a collection of images, some from everyday objects such as fruit, Polaroids or body parts, and others from paintings including The Daughters of Edward D. Boit by John Sin...
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art: Self/Image: Portraiture from Copley to Close
The portrait occupies a singular place in the history of American art. As a genre, these representations of self are layered visual accounts of actuality, desire, and projection. Historical portraits�too often taken at face value�are granted a ra...
Transition: Acid Drops and Sugar Candy: Works by Over 40 Artists
Works included in the exhibition are by Majed Aslam, Emi Avor, Paul Becker, Kiera Bennett, Anna Bjerger, Clive Brandon, Jorges Cabieses, Louise Brierley, Leigh Clarke, Sam Dargan, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Stephen Harwood, Nadia Heb...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Surprise: New Work by 18 Wellington Designers
The works have been created by 18 Wellington designers from the fields of fashion, architecture, interior, graphic, web, industrial, theatre, lighting and sound design, based on the theme of surprise. The exhibition follows a show of the ...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works�prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs�by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honor� Fr...
University of Virginia Art Museum: A Jefferson Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts
This special exhibition features major examples of 18th- and 19th-century American painting and furniture, including works by Albert Bierstadt, John Singleton Copley, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Stuart ...
Detroit Institute of Art: American Attitude: Whistler and His Followers
The 63 pieces in the show include 13 paintings by Whistler as well as works by other prominent American artists such as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Henry Ossawa Tanner. Whistler�s paintings will be juxtapos...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Vel�zquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Vel�zquez will feature more paintings by...
Portland Museum of Art: Rediscovering Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott
British by birth, Samuel Triscott emigrated to the United States in 1871 and settled in Massachusetts where he supported himself as an engineer while spending all of his free time painting. Around 1880, he took a studio in Boston where he was able...
Tate Britain: Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Exposed will be the first exhibition to survey the full range of the Victorian nude, both male and female. It will concentrate on the nude in painting, drawing and sculpture, but will also explore artistic representations of the naked body in othe...
Delaware Art Museum: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Impressionists Abroad and at Home showcases 39 canvases by 28 artists, including two pioneers of American Impressionism who caught the spirit of the new French painting during the 1870s: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) and John Singer Sargent (1...
Mountclair Art Museum: Paris 1900: The American School at the Universal Exposition
Works of art exhibited in Paris have been lent by museums across the United States and Europe, including Whistler's Symphony in White No. 2 from the Tate Gallery ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks
The exhibition was organized by Miriam Stewart, Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings. �It�s almost as if we�re catching the artist unaware,� said Stewart. �In many cases, these sketchbooks resemble a diary. One can follow the artists ...
Haus der Kunst: Exposed: The Victorian Nude
The exhibition Exposed: The Victorian Nude now presents another, new aspect of this age. It takes as its theme the development of both female and male nude painting in England. But was the nude an expression and zenith of high art, or was it an ou...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Works from Renaissance to 20th-Century Highlight How Artists and their Workshops Used Both Sides of the Sheet
The unusual display allows viewers to trace the creative process as an artist sketched from one side of the sheet to the other, to see how works were copied by assistants in Renaissance workshops, and to understand the increasing shift toward a co...
Westmoreland Museum of American Art: First Juried Biennial: Curated by Ingrid Schaffner
Featured artists: Virginia Steele Ankney, Paul Binai, Leslie Calhoun, Marie Mawe Charpentier, Ron Donoughe, John Dorinsky, Betty Elias, John A. Fobes, L�Ox Formidable, Fran V. Galamas, Patty Gallagher, Melinda Myers Grass, Greg Hricenak, Doug Kins...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II�Collection
The collection is marked by a passion for color, strong compositional designs, and occasionally eccentric images, with an emphasis upon several favorite artists, among them Joseph Stella, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove, each of w...
Memphis College of Art: Common Thread Fibers: In Memory of Henry Easterwood
On view are works in hand-dyed fabric, silk, embroidery and weavings. Jennifer Sargent, Common Thread Curator and Assistant Professor of Fibers / Surface Design, said "The common thread shared by these artists is a delight in the inherent propert...
Terra Museum of American Art: The People Work: American Perspectives 1840-1940
"By exploring diverse representations from the Terra Foundation for the Arts collection and several key works on loan, The People Work examines a variety of human activities investigating labor. The exhibition questions common assumptions and atti...
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Rewick Gallery: Treasures to Go!
`Storing treasures that attract more than half a million visitors each year was not an option the staff wanted to consider,` said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonians American Art Museum. Instead, in January the museum is laun...
Orlando Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Impressionists Abroad and at Home showcases 39 paintings by 28 artists, including two pioneers of American Impressionism, Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, who caught the spirit of the new French painting during the 1870s. Among the ...
Peabody Essex Museum: Odyssey Into World Art Spans Time, Place, and Culture

Odyssey: A Journey Into World Art opens to the public October 16 and will run through the fall of 2001.

We want to push the boundaries, says Paula Richter, co-curator for the exhibition. There will be objects in Odyssey that people will be com...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Expanding Horizons : Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918
"The revolutionary approach of Expanding Horizons makes a major contribution to the understanding of landscape art in North America," said Kathleen Bartels director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Gallery is proud to offer visitors the first op...

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