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John Singer Sargent

[American Painter, 1856-1925]

• Relationships: Studied under Carolus-Duran.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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A portrait is a picture of a person with something wrong with the mouth.
- John Singer Sargent

 


 
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Original works by John Singer Sargent available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
7 works by John Singer Sargent online

Boston Public Library
Info about the library's monumental mural by Sargent, Triumph of Religion, and its restoration

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Mrs. Knowles and Her Children, 1902

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Dorothy, 1900
Study for The Spanish Dancer, 1882

John Singer Sargent at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
9 works by John Singer Sargent

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!
The Sargent at Harvard Project: A searchable database of hundreds of Sargent's works from Harvard collections

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris   NEW!

John Singer Sargent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
hundreds of works by John Singer Sargent online

John Singer Sargent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882

John Singer Sargent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
John Singer Sargent: Beyond the Portrait Studio

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
The Birthday Party, 1887
Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight, 1879

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
6 works by John Singer Sargent online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Sculpture collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online

John Singer Sargent at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
21 works by John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gondoliers' Siesta, 1905

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
5 works online by Sargent

John Singer Sargent at the National Gallery, London, UK
Lord Ribblesdale

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK   NEW!

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard

Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881

Art Fund for UK Museums
9 works

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama   NEW!
Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon, 1904

Boston Athenaeum
Annie Adams Fields
George McCulloch


Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)   NEW!
3 works by the artist

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
Info about a 2004 exhibition: Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
On The Terrace

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
Ilex Wood at Majorca with Blue Pigs, 1908 (scroll right to image 17)

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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A Venetian Woman

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Two Girls Fishing

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Fumée d'Ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris), 1880

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Portrait of Carolus-Duran, 1879

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
Study of Three Figures, ca.1876-78

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works online

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Monument to John Singer Sergent, 1925

Cummer Museum of Art
In the Alps, 1911

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!
4 works online

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Campo S. Agnese, Venice, ca.1890

Grey Art Gallery at New York University
Click on "Images" at the top of the screen to see 7 works on paper

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

John Singer Sargent in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Val d'Aosta: A Man Fishing, ca.1906

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Mrs. Charles Hunter
Mrs. Shakespeare


Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
The Smoky Thames

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Portrait of Ernest-Ange Duez, ca.1884

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Portrait of the Artist Sketching (image 33)
A Boating Party (image 34)

National Academy of Design, New York City
Claude Monet

National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon

National Museums Liverpool, UK
Vespers

National Museums Liverpool, UK
On His Holidays, 1901

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Mr. And Mrs. John White Field

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
6 works by John Singer Sargent online

Portland Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!

Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Man Reading

Seattle Art Museum

Sheffield Galleries & Museums, UK
The Misses Vickers, 1884

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Jean Joseph Marie Carris

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
"Director's Tour" discussion of Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
4 works online

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Photograph of Sargent in his Paris studio with the painting Madame X

Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Breakfast in the Loggia

Southampton City Gallery, England   NEW!

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Curtis

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
5 works online

The British Museum, London, UK   NEW!

The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Portrait study of Lady Norah Smith

The Jewish Museum, New York City
4 portraits of the Wertheimer family

The Newark Museum, New Jersey   NEW!
Mrs. Charles Thursby, 1897–98

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Tyne & Wear Museums, England   NEW!
2 works online

Tyne & Wear Museums Zoomable Database, England   NEW!
2 paintings online

University of Delaware Museums   NEW!
Sketches for mural for the Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Portrait of Isabella Young (Mrs. Colin Hunter)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
The Sketchers, ca.1913

Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Portrait of L. A. Harrison, Esquire

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2 works online

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Venetian Water Carriers, 1880-82

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Muddy Alligators, 1917

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 438

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Nonchaloir (Repose), 1911

Artonline

CGFA  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

ArtMagick

Artyzm

Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
11 scans of murals painted by Sargent

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

Olga's Gallery

The Athenaeum  
724 works online by Sargent

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
Has a fairly exhaustive collection of links to Sargent's works

 
Other Web Sites:
Art of the First World War

Artcyclopedia
Portrait of Caspar Goodrich

Artnet Artist Works Catalogues

Erik E. Weems Web Design

Outdoor Painting   NEW!

PBS
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Commentary from "Sister Wendy's American Collection"

Still Life Paintings: 19th Century Painting Techniques

The BBC
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

The Pragmatic Romanticist
Wonderful overview of the 1999 show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Singer Sargent
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

ARTnews
"The Hidden Sargent"

PBS

Ray Carney: Essays on American Painting
2 essays on Sargent

Resource Library Magazine
John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits

Resource Library Magazine
Sargent: The Late Landscapes

Resource Library Magazine
John Singer Sargent at the Portland Museum of Art

Resource Library Magazine
A Sargent Celebration at the Huntington

Resource Library Magazine
John Singer Sargent in Houston Collections

Resource Library Magazine
American and European Masters from the Museum Collections

Resource Library Magazine
John Alfred Parsons Millet, 1892

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The John Singer Sargent letters

Spartacus Educational Books
War Artists of W.W.I.

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-86

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Beyond the Portraits-The Watercolor Sargent

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: It's Time to Forgive Sargent For Making It Big in 1880's

Time Magazine
"Tourist First Class", 1986 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"A True Visual Sensualist", 1999 article by Robert Hughes

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation   NEW!

  
 
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Breakfast in the Loggia
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Great Expectations


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Sargent Watercolors


 
 
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