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
(click on the image
to step
closer)
Carnation
Lily Lily Rose
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
Forum
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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