The Inscrutable John Singer Sargent

In winter the family went to the south of France, in summer to the Alps, where Sargent formed a lifelong love affair with mountaineering while hiking with his father. Being chosen for the annual Paris Salon was not enough; he wanted his portraits of women in society to create a buzz-which they did,...

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Published in:The Gay & lesbian review worldwide 2023-03, Vol.30 (2), p.13-15
Main Author: Holleran, Andrew
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Families & family life
Gardner, Isabella Stewart
Museums
Painters
Sargent, John Singer
Society
Watercolor painting
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Summary:In winter the family went to the south of France, in summer to the Alps, where Sargent formed a lifelong love affair with mountaineering while hiking with his father. Being chosen for the annual Paris Salon was not enough; he wanted his portraits of women in society to create a buzz-which they did, until he went too far with his portrait of Amélie Gautreau, the New Orleans-born wife of a French merchant banker. By the time Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Public Library, and Harvard University all asked him to paint murals for them, he leapt at the chance. [...]there was another group of male nudes, mostly of D'Inverno, that Sargent's sisters gave to Harvard's Fogg Museum in the 1930s. History is full of cases in which the surviving family members of artists and writers tried to control their image for posterity, such as Henry James' nephew supervising the posthumous publication of his uncle's letters.
ISSN:1532-1118