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Fashioned by Sargent
Erica E. Hirshler, Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, James Finch, Pamela A. Parmal; Text written by Paul Fisher, …
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A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and
his lasting contribution to the history of modern art The history
of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase
(1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators.
Chase was a leading member of the international artistic
avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of
subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urban
park scenes, interiors, and portraits. As a teacher and founder of
the Shinnecock Summer School of Art and the New York School of Art,
Chase mentored a new generation of modernists, including Edward
Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Joseph Stella. A century after his
death, the breadth and richness of Chase's career are celebrated in
this beautifully illustrated publication. Five essays by prominent
scholars of American art offer new insights into Chase's
multi-faceted artistic practice and his position in the
international cultural climate at the turn of the 20th century.
Published in association with The Phillips Collection Exhibition
Schedule: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
(06/04/16-09/11/16) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (10/09/16-01/16/17)
Ca'Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice
(02/11/17-05/28/17)
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Sargent and Fashion
Erica E. Hirshler; As told to Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, James Finch, Pamela A. Parmal
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Sargent and Fashion explores the dynamic relationship of painting
and dress — from portraits and performance, gender expression and
the New Woman, to the pull of tradition and the excitement of new
ideas. "The coat is the picture," John Singer Sargent exclaimed to
his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a
heavy overcoat ever more tightly around his sitter's slender
figure. Sought-after by sitters for his ability to present to the
world flattering and engaging likenesses, Sargent was
simultaneously pursuing his own artistic vision. Rather than
holding up a mirror to contemporary fashion, Sargent made fashion a
part of his artistic repertoire. He often chose what his sitters
wore, pinned their garments, or draped fabric around them, all with
a view to creating confections to be recorded on canvas through his
unrivalled artistic gifts. With contributions from many of the
leading thinkers on Sargent and his world, and lavish reproductions
of major portraits and exquisite costumes of the period, this
publication offers a vital new perspective on one of the most
famous and fashionable artists of all time.
John Leslie Breck (1860-1899) was one of the founders of the
American art colony at Giverny and was among the earliest American
artists to embrace the Impressionist style. He was also one of the
first to exhibit his Impressionist paintings in America and helped
to popularize the style during his years working in the Boston area
in the 1890s. Between 1887 and 1888 he and a handful of his
American colleagues began visiting the French village of Giverny,
where they met Claude Monet and subsequently explored the new
approach to painting that Monet had helped to pioneer. Breck's
canvases from this period, loosely brushed and filled with light
and color, are a marked departure from his earlier works that are
characterized by darker tonalities and tighter brushwork that
typified the preferred style of the era. When Breck returned to
America in 1892, he applied what he had learned to paintings of the
New England landscape and frequently exhibited his work. Inspired
by The Mint Museum's 2016 acquisition of John Leslie Breck's canvas
Suzanne Hoschede-Monet Sewing, this volume includes approximately
70 of Breck's finest works, drawn from public and private
collections. Along with his scenes of Giverny and America, this
volume features a selection of paintings from his sojourn in Venice
in 1897. Always interested exploring in new ways of seeing the
world, Breck had begun to explore aspects of post-Impressionism and
Asian aesthetics in the years before his early death, at the age of
39, in 1899. This volume also features up to 36 additional
comparative images, including details, photographs, and paintings
by Monet and other leading American impressionists including
Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, Lila Cabot Perry, Childe
Hassam, and Arthur Wesley Dow, presented throughout the main essays
and chronology and appendices.
A celebration of the American painter's life and work in the region
he loved best In 1883 American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
moved his studio from New York City to Prouts Neck, a slip of
coastline just south of Portland, Maine. Here, over the course of
twenty-five years, Homer produced his most celebrated and
emotionally powerful paintings, which often depicted the dramatic
views and storm-strewn skies around his home. Homer's influence and
the Prouts Neck area would have a profound effect on the rise of a
new American modernism, inspiring the artists who followed him.
This beautifully illustrated catalogue celebrates Homer's legacy at
Prouts Neck, and documents the Portland Museum of Art's six-year
conservation project to preserve the Winslow Homer Studio, the
former carriage house in which Homer lived and worked. Photographs
of the studio and site, never before open to the public, highlight
views that are recognizable as the subject of so many of Homer's
paintings. Essays by leading scholars examine his iconic
masterpieces; his artistic development in Prouts Neck; the
architecture of his studio; his relationship to French painting;
and the full range of his marine paintings. Published in
association with the Portland Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule:
Portland Museum of Art(09/22/12-12/30/12)
John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolor was unconventional.
Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated
and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his
confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled
critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer of an
exhibition in London proclaimed him "an eagle in a dove-cote";
another called his work "swagger" watercolors. For Sargent,
however, the watercolors were not so much about swagger as about a
renewed and liberated approach to painting. In watercolor, his
vision became more personal and his works more interconnected, as
he considered the way one image--often of a friend or favorite
place--enhanced another. Sargent held only two major watercolor
exhibitions in the United States during his lifetime. The contents
of the first, in 1909, were purchased in their entirety by the
Brooklyn Museum of Art. The paintings exhibited in the other, in
1912, were scooped up by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "John
Singer Sargent Watercolors" reunites nearly 100 works from these
collections for the first time, arranging them by themes and
subjects: sunlight on stone, figures reclining on grass, patterns
of light and shadow. Enhanced by biographical and technical essays,
and lavishly illustrated with 175 color reproductions, this
publication introduces readers to the full sweep of Sargent's
accomplishments in this medium, in works that delight the eye as
well as challenge our understanding of this prodigiously gifted
artist.
The international art star of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent
(1856-1925) was born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris
and worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Sargent is best known for
his dramatic and stylish portraits, but he was equally active as a
landscapist, muralist, and watercolor painter. His dynamic and
boldly conceived watercolors, created during travels to Tuscan
gardens, Alpine retreats, Venetian canals and Bedouin encampments,
record unusual motifs that caught his incisive eye.
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