Cleveland Museum of Art
The Patio
John Singer SargentLinkedCulture matchlcp-999e50c15063
- Date
- 1908
- Medium
- watercolor with traces of gouache over graphite
- Culture
- America, late 19th-early 20th Century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 124814
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Sargent was born in Italy, studied in France, and worked chiefly in England, but he never renounced his American citizenship. As a young man, Sargent achieved fame and wealth as a portraitist, but he gradually tired of painting wealthy, superficial aristocrats. In his later years he focused increasingly on watercolor. Along with Winslow Homer, Sargent was the major artist to develop a spontaneous approach toward watercolor. Rather than carefully layering his pigments, he dashed off his paintings in a single sitting, allowing the colors to freely blend together.
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- Credit line
- In memory of Ralph King, gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T. Woods, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
American Watercolor and Drawing WorksA collection of primarily watercolor and mixed-media drawings from American institutions, spanning portraiture, landscape, botanical, and narrative subjects created on paper supports.
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