Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Watercolors
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| Other authors / contributors: | Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925.
Carbone, Teresa A.
Chen, Janet.
Choi, Connie H.
Manick, Annette.
Owen, Antoinette.
Sherry, Karen A.
Brooklyn Museum.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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| ISBN: | 9780878467914 (hardcover)
0878467912 (hardcover)
9780878467921 (softcover)
0878467920 (softcover)
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| Notes: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, Apr. 5-Jul. 28, 2013; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 13, 2013-Jan. 20, 2014; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Mar. 2-May 26, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolor was unconventional. Disregarding contemporary aesthetic standards that called for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes, loosely defined forms, and unexpected vantage points startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer of an exhibition in London proclaimed him "an eagle in a dove-cote"; another called his work "swagger" watercolors. For Sargent, watercolors were not so much about swagger as about a renewed and liberated approach to painting. His vision became more personal and his works began to interconnect as he considered the way one image--often of friends or favorite places--enhanced another.
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