Sargentologyさんのイラストまとめ

Cashmere. Sargent loved a shawl, particularly this paisley one, which he paired over & over again with his niece Rose-Marie. It was less about texture & more about pattern, an abstract way to break up the blinding sheen of satin whites, entwining leisure with luxury & exoticism.

A hot day calls for some cool water. Painted in Norway in 1901 as studies for 'On His Holidays', these mountain streams all show the running wildness of the Sunndal river, as it cascades amidst rocks in deep jades & amethyst, to emerge cool and calm in a spray of foam and iris.

A rare figure study from Sargent's time in the Middle East, Franciscan Monk in the Garden of Gethsemane depicts Brother Giulio Valorai leaning against a tree reportedly from the time of Christ. Like Rosina in the olive grove, figure and nature blend to become one symbiotic form.

Though once described as a 'lovely Easter egg with nothing inside', Lady Helen Vincent proved herself a woman of great worth. She worked as an assistant anaesthetist and nurse during WWI, and wrote a book chronicling the Red Cross efforts in Germany (pub 1946).

Sir George Sitwell was obsessed with lineage & commissioned Sargent to paint his family as a companion piece to a 1787 group by Copley. The family reportedly hated it, particularly b/c he straightened Edith's 'artistically inclined' nose while bending George's aristocratic one

You may be familiar with the cashmere shawl that appears in Cashmere of 1908, but can you spot it in many of his later portraits? Much like the bergère chair in Lady Agnew, which echoed in his portraits of the 1890s, a pop of shawl becomes a signature distinctly late Sargentian.

#HappyNewYear fellow Sargentologists! Here's hoping your hangovers are of short duration, and your naps are of a long one. Looking forward to sharing more Sargent-isms with you in 2020.

The more I dig through Sargent's women, the more I find stories of tenacity, creativity, talent, life. Gertrude Kingston- actress, manager, journalist-friend to Ellen Terry-almost ran for Parliament, invented the Kingston lacquer technique, and taught public speaking to women. 😍

The urge to be delightfully indecent, Sargent style, is overpowering in this kind of summer weather. The tommies had the right idea in finding the nearest cool lake. 😎🏊‍♂️🌊

Contrary to popular belief, when Sargent began work with in 1907, it was not bc he hated portraits - rather he was bored! Quick portraits enabled him time to travel the world & pursue new forms of art, like the watercolour, and this new sense of leisure dominated his later career