John Singer Sargent
By: edited by Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond.
Contributors: Kilmurray, Elaine.; Ormond, Richard.; Volk, Mary Crawford.; Tate Gallery.; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-280) and index.
"This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition at Tate Gallery, London 15 Oct. 1998-17 Jan. 1999, and touring to National Gallery of Art, Washington 21 Feb.-31 May 1999;  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 23 June-26 Sept. 1999"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Directors' Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: John Singer Sargent : a biographical sketch / Richard Ormond; title: Sargent's art / Richard Ormond; title: Sargent in public : on the Boston murals / Mary Crawford Volk; title: Catalogue; title: Chronology; title: Select bibliography; title: Index.