John Singer Sargent's Garden Study of the Vickers Children
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Garden Study of the Vickers Children
17 x 26 in.
 
Garden Study of the Vickers Children 
 John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1884 
Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
Oil on canvas
137.6 x 91.1 cm (54 3/16 x 35 7/8 in.)
Gift of Viola E Gray Charitable Trust
Jpg: Carol Gerten's Fine Art

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1885-86

Note

Exhibitions

John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987

Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005


Provenance

Albert Vickers to 1919; his daughter-in-law, Mrs V.C. Vickers; her son , Leonard Vickers; his cousin, David Pleydell-Bouverie; sold by him Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 7-8 April 1971, lot 36; Bressler & Meisen, bt Flint Institute of Art Michigan

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From:  Sarah Wickham 
(sa rah. wick ham@rncm.ac.uk)
Date: 6/8/2004

I'm the archivist at Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK).  We have a pencil sketch by Sargent of a former violin student, Lena Kontorovich. It's not an amazing piece of art but...

(. . . ) I'm very attached to Sargent personally: my step-great-grandfather is depicted in Sargent's Garden Study of the Vickers Children and a step cousin was interested in tracing the picture's provenance -- this was brilliant: very many thanks.
 

Subject: Major Paintings
From: Crazy  Duckie1231@aol.com  
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2003 
 
[I think this should be one of your major paintings because] this one has children in  . . . the fields  . . . and I feel that it represents the growth of life, like the children are young but the flowers are grown, like they will one day. I had to do and interpretation of a painting and [this] was a wonderful one.

 


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