John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925: The Complete Paintings, Volume IX

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Richard Ormond Elaine Kilmurray

John Singer Sargent

Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925: The Complete Paintings, Volume IX

Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray

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Yale University Press
27 November 2016

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

The final volume in a full survey of the work of John Singer Sargent, covering his late watercolors, designs for the Boston murals, and work as an official War Artist

The last in a series of books devoted to the work of John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), this volume covers the figure and landscape works that Sargent produced between 1914 and 1925. The story begins with the artist painting with friends on vacation in Austria in the summer of 1914, unaware that war was about to be declared. The following year, he began working in London on his ideas for the murals at the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, before spending two years in Boston and exploring other parts of America. While in Florida to paint a portrait of John D. Rockefeller, he produced a group of uniquely Floridian watercolors that are breathtaking arrangements of color, form, and light. In July 1918 he accepted an invitation from the British government to travel to the Somme battlefields as an official war artist. This experience led him to produce a remarkable group of works depicting troop movements, off-duty soldiers relaxing, and the studies for his epic canvas, Gassed. Sargent returned to Boston in 1921 and 1922 to complete his mural projects, and visits to Maine and New Hampshire yielded numerous watercolors. Chapters on Sargent’s materials and the framing of his pictures complete this remarkable project.

Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

By: Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 241mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 2.495kg
ISBN: 9780300177374
ISBN 10: 0300177372
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 27 November 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Ormond is an independent art historian and the great-nephew of John Singer Sargent. Elaine Kilmurray is research director of the John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné Project.

Reviews for John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925: The Complete Paintings, Volume IX

This ninth volume offers more - much more - than a simple completion of an ambitious project. For it also contains two extremely valuable extended essays from voices new to the project, both of which chart fresh directions in Sargent studies. --Marc Simpson, Burlington Magazine 1 July 2017 --Marc Simpson Burlington Magazine (07/01/2017)