Sargent's reputation is often defined by his remarkable achievements as a painter of sophisticated society portraits. However, as this innovative examination of his career reveals, he created a significant number of childrens portraits and genre paintings featuring children. The title of the book makes ironic reference to Charles Dickens's famous novel Great Expectations, and is used here to suggest how Sargents paintings of children related to the expectations associated with representations of childhood in the art and literature of Sargents day. The book also traces how Sargent ultimately advanced childhood as an artistic subject. The book contains five essays by three notable curators and professors of fine arts, is illustrated with Sargents truly stunning and often lesser-known paintings of children, and includes Sargent family photographs, some of which are previously unpublished.
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Barbara Dayer Gallati is Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum and is on the art history faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Erica E. Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of Paintings in the Department of the Art of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Richard Ormond, a great-nephew of John Singer Sargent, is director of the John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné Project and the principal authority in Sargent Studies.
Erica E. Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of Paintings in the Department of the Art of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Richard Ormond, a great-nephew of John Singer Sargent, is director of the John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné Project and the principal authority in Sargent Studies.
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This review is from: Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children (Hardcover)
He has drawn and painted children since his teens. I liked how he painted his youngest sister Violet from the time she was born in 1870 until her marriage to Mr. Ormond. His paintings of children are diverse, from the kids from the Lily Carnation picture, to the upper class work study of the Boit children, to the teenage picture of Rosina nestled on a tree limb in Capri.
He really showed his craft in painting the diverse pictures of children. He may not have had children, but his interest in them were very sincere and touching.
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The book of children's paintings by Sargent is sold in many book stores. An excellent book, its list price is $60. Amazon lists it at nearly 50% less. Thus, the sale was not so much for a superior product, as for a far cheaper price.
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Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children explores a category of subject matter that recurs throughout Sargent's oeuvre-the child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Royal Academy, Museum of Fine Arts, Sir George, Adelson Galleries, New Gallery, Grand Manner, Cecil Harrison, National Gallery of Art, Neapolitan Children Bathing, Boston Public Library, Garden Study, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Victoria Stanley, Yale University Press, Bridgeman Art Library, Caspar Goodrich, Edouard Pailleron, Laura Lister, Ness York, Paris Salon, Richard Ormond, Edward Darley Boit, General Research Division, Reconstructing the Golden Age New!
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Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children explores a category of subject matter that recurs throughout Sargent's oeuvre-the child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Royal Academy, Museum of Fine Arts, Sir George, Adelson Galleries, New Gallery, Grand Manner, Cecil Harrison, National Gallery of Art, Neapolitan Children Bathing, Boston Public Library, Garden Study, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Victoria Stanley, Yale University Press, Bridgeman Art Library, Caspar Goodrich, Edouard Pailleron, Laura Lister, Ness York, Paris Salon, Richard Ormond, Edward Darley Boit, General Research Division, Reconstructing the Golden Age New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- John Singer Sargent (Fine Art Series) by Edmund Swinglehurst on 7 pages
- New gallery by Nicholson Museum on page 99, page 137, and page 178
- John Sargent by Charteris on page 63, page 162, and Back Matter
- John Singer Sargent by Patricia Hills on page 177, and Back Matter
- John Singer Sargent (Library of American Art) by Trevor Fairbrother on page 143, and page 177
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