![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. The paintings exhibited in the other, in 1912, were scooped up by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The contents of the first, in 1909, were purchased in their entirety by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Sargent held only two major watercolor exhibitions in the United States during his lifetime. 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. ![]() For Sargent, however, the watercolors were not so much about swagger as about a renewed and liberated approach to painting. One reviewer of an exhibition in London proclaimed him “an eagle in a dove-cote” another called his work “swagger” watercolors. 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. John Singer Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. ![]()
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