From Library Journal
A lavishly illustrated group of scholarly essays published by the Whitney Museum as the catalog of the retrospective of this 19th-century Euro-American society painter. Hills contributes three fine studies on Sargent's style and sensibility, the late subject pictures, and draftsmanship. Other specialists cover Sargent in Venice, in Paris and London, his Impressionism, the late portraits, and the watercolors. Stanley Olson's contribution on Sargent's family is the most outstanding. Olson remarks that at his birth the artist received "his mother's well-thumbed Baedeker , and not a silver spoon, for he began his life as he ended itas a tourist." Highly recommended as a complement to Carter Ratcliff's John Singer Sargent (Abbeville Pr., 1982). Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Art Department, Goucher College, Towson, Md.
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Kurzbeschreibung
A valuable contribution to the history of late 19th-century European and American art, covering every aspect of John Singer Sargent's life, work, and artistic sensibility. 260 illustrations, 90 in full color.